A SCANDALOUS STORY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 8986, 25 February 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

A SCANDALOUS STORY.

Sidney Scott, 30, of Littlemorc Place, Kennington Road, described as a bricklayer, was charged, on remand, at Marlborough-street Police Court, on January 4, with stealing two diamond rings, two gold chains, £14 in gold, several bank-notes, and other property, to the value of £14(5, belonging to Amy Morle, of 102, Jermyn-street. The evidence taken on the former occasion was to the effect that when Detective Crackett received the prisoner from the Newcastle police ho informed that officer that by the request of a servant named Margaret Jaques he and she lived together in June last. The girl then told him that she had taken her mistress'cash-box, and he changed the notes and sold the other property that the box contained. At the time ho took the room for the girl he had no idea that she had committed the theft. Margaret Jaques said she was at present a prisoner at Millbank gaol under sentence of 12 months' imprisonment for stealing a cash-box from Morle's hotel, in Jermyn-street. She was in June last keeping company with prisoner, who was supposed to be a bricklayer, but did little work. He was always worrying her for money, and she used to give hiin her hard-earned wages to try to make him better off. She stole the money forming the subject of the charge, together with the cash-box, and told the prisoner that she had taken it. He promised to look after her, and he left her helpless and destitute. She did not see what was in the cash-box. She was lying in bed at the time he looked at it, and when she asked him what there was he simply said, " Wait a bit," and went away, leaving her penniless in a strange house. He took also her own watch and chain, and for two days she was without food, and walking about the streets like a lunatic, knowing what she had done, and that the police were looking for her. She lived with him two days before he broke the box open, and she never knew what it contained. The prisoner said he went out to change the notes and admitted he lost it over betting.