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Observer, Volume 2, Issue 37, 28 May 1881, Page 397

Next afternoon the toAvn was in a ferment. It transpired that about one o'clock Mauleverer had been arrested for stealing £400 in notes from the Bank of at Christchnrch, and was even then in the lock-up. Pupkins, in a state of collapse, went home, and the girls had hysterics. By and bye the facts came out. Mauleverer had, it appeared, lived a very fast life in Christchnrch, and, finding his salary insufficient, had borrowed a few hundreds from the bank. Itacehorses, dinnerparties, and, we regret to say, jewellery for barmaids, figured conspicuously in the evidence at the trial at Christchurch, and so little could be said in extenuation that the young man was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. Before the trial he admitted that he cared nothing for Miss P., and merely intended to marry her for her money. This revelation had an astringent effect on the lady, who declared he wasn't worth crying for and plucked up spirits. Pupkins no longer thinks himself a physiognomist.