A FRIGHTENED THIEF.
A young married woman, named Belmsley, against whom there were several previous convictions,was brought up at the Nottingham Town Hall, charged with having stolen a tin box from the Midland railway station at Nottingham. The box was one of three which had been left on the platform at the railway station. They were labelled «W. H; Turtor, for Edinburgh, via Nottingham.” The woman stole the box, which is of the “travelling trunk” shape, and went away with it. Beaching her home in safety, she opened the box, and to her horror found that it contained the body of a child preserved in spirits, preparations of bones, which appeared to have been used in anatomical studies, several limbs, and other human remains. The prisoner was so terrified that she took the box straight back to the station. In the meantime, however, information concerning the robbery had been given to the police, and on presenting herself at the station, she was at once taken into custody. At the police-station she ■tated that she had never been so frightened in her life. The remains geemed to have belonged to a medical student.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 3340, 15 December 1883, Page 3
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192A FRIGHTENED THIEF. South Canterbury Times, Issue 3340, 15 December 1883, Page 3
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