REMARKABLE PROOF OF INNOCENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 6762, 29 November 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

REMARKABLE PROOF OF INNOCENCE.

The innocence of~i suspected'jperson .has just been proved In, a remarkable manner. About nine months ago a domestic servant named Ellen Ryder was charged at Enfield with stealing a watch which had teen entrusted to her by a fellow" servant to get repaired. Ryder's statement Was that she took'tho. watch,' enclosed in a small box, to the Edfield Pjstroffioe, 'and ,! wlsjied ( to register it, : the wrapper being properly addressed; that she wai told by two young men who had the care'* to! the (fficß that there was no need for registering, and, that she must take the parcel outride and post it in tin usual way. SEe did" ;s6, : '.but tie packet never reached its destination,' The magistrates, whilo placing Htt.'e faith ih her explanation,' did not consider the.evident of stealing sufficient, and she[ but she has been suspected ever sincd, and unable to find employment. At .the, hut sessions .pf the Central' Criminal Court, William Eley, aged eighteen;' and John Michael'Walsh, aged twenty-one, the two persons who were oh 'duty at Office on the day whW r thd : youn£;wpinen stated she. posted the watch, were" found guilty of stealing some letters cbnwriißg money and other 'property.. Eley.'' waa Sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment, and Walsh, who was the instigator Vf the robberies, to five yews,' penal Servitude. Amongst the articles traced to the" dos* session of the prisoners was the Watch pat Ryder was charged with stealing. , "The fait was brought to the Eafield Justice, and at the sitting of the Court the bhaf/ma'n of the bshoh trabHoly innocence of the had bw¥ ftilly ehed". ■ . ' n " ', '.''''''.'/; '"';' i