CHARGES OF THEFT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 9, 11 July 1910, Page 7

CHARGES OF THEFT.

An elderly woman named Catherine Moore appeared at the Magistrate's Court to-day, on remand, to answer three charges'—^) Of theft of a sealskin niuff, valued at £8, the property of the D.1.C. ; (2) of theft of a pair ofbinoculars, a leather collar-bag, a purse, and a handbag, valued at £7 4s 6d, tha property of William Holliday; and (3) of theft of a, fur, valued at £2 10s, the property of Charles Adanis and another. Mr. T. M. Wilford, who appeared on behalf of accused, said that Moore vat a foreigner. She spoke English indifferently, and on the last .occasion on which she was charged with the offence she had intimated her intention of pleading guilty. Since that, counsel had received instructions to apppar on her behalf, and he asked that Moore be allowed to withdraw the plea of guilty, and substitute one of not guilty. Chief-Declcctive ißroberg said thaty [ it was .i fortnight ago that accused adi mitied the theft. He himself had had a conversation with Moore, and sha could speak and understand English quite well. His Worship intimated that he was prepared to allow defendant to with-, draw her former plea of guilty. Moore elected to be tried by a jury, and was remanded till Wednesday next.. Bail was allowed to stand as before— viz., £50, and one surety of a like amount.