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prisoner ngnung wimlt;X 1 I Wt l O, QI1Urounded by a crowd. He appeared to be drunk.3 police, a witness calledand, according to the police, by prisoner was drunk also.—Fined lvs. andClt;^tSOUNDSaLIKE JACK SHEPHERD.Thomas Knightall, 16, described as an errand boy, no fixed abode, was charged with stealing, on June 19th, from 1, Drake-street, Enfield. 13s. 8d. cash, silver brooch, pair of silver earrings, scarf-pin, silver seal, metal matchbox, pocket knife, pencil case, etc., of the total value of £1 5s., the property of Thomas Frank Greenland. He was also charged with stealing, on June 22nd, from the receiving ward at Edmonton Workhouse, two leather purses and £3 13s. cash, the property of Thomas Sipthorpe, an inmate of the workhouse. He had only just been received into custody at Leicester by Detective Summers, and conveyed direct to this oourt.—Mrs. Greenland stated that on the evening of June 18th the articles enumerated were safely in the house. She left about 11 o’clock in the morning of Thursday to make a call a few doors off, being absent, she thought, less than live minutes. At that time she missed nothing; but in the evening she missed a money box from her front bedroom, which oontained the cash mentioned and other articles. On the following Saturday morning her husband informed the police of their loss; and that (Monday) morning, at the police-station, she was shown the several articles mentioned, which she identified.—Detective Summers deposed that on June 21st he was informed by Mr. Greenland of the loss of the box, etc. On Sunday afternoon last he saw prisoner at Leicester police-station, and charged himwith the theft of the box. In reply, prisoner said, £* Do you mean the policeman’s house at the corner of the street? I saw the photo of a policeman (Greenland’s brother) hanging up; and saw the woman leave the house and go into another a little way down the street. I went and knocked at the door; I couldn’t hear anyone, and ran upstairs. I went into a bedroom. where I saw a box, and when I rattled it I could hear money. I took a pillow case from a drawer and put the box into it. The woman came back into the house; I crept downstairs, and ran out of the front door. I broke the box open with a brick on a piece of waste ground, and took the money and other things, and left the box and some paper (insurance policies) behind.” Prisoner was charged that morning by Mrs. Greenland, and made no reply.—P.c. Halford, 392 Y, stated that at about 6.30 on the morning of June 21st he was passing along Tucker’s path, Forty Hill. He saw a sack in a ditch, and under a hedge. On examining it, he found the boy curled up, and fast asleep. When asked his name he pretended to be deaf, and at lasaid his name was George Jackson, and his age 11 (which, judging by his stature, is nearer liis age). His home, he added, was in Adelaide-street, Northampton, and that his father had brought him to London by train about two months previously. He went on to tell the witness that for several nights he and lus father slept at a lodging house at Tottenham, and his father ran away from him on Whit-Monday, since when he had been sleeping^ At the police-station he was searched, when the forming the subject of thecharge preferred Sgainsu iPni by. ®frs\ Greenland were, with other article3, including two watches, found in his possession. Prisoner was remanded to Edmonton Workhouse on a charge of sleeping out.—On this evidence prisoner wa remanded iu custody.—Subsequently the charge of theft at the Workhouse was proceeded with. Sibthorp’s evidence was that he looked after the receiving ward, although he was an inmate: and about three o’clock on June 21st a constable brought to him the prisoner, who was bathed and put to bed, his clothing being placed in tne disinfecting machine. Witness went to bed that night in the same room as the boy, and about an hour later ho fancied he felt his bed moving. On looking up he saw a shadow pass over the ward, and on turning up the light witness noticed prisoner’s bed was ‘‘ made up ” wth a pillow, and covered with bed-clothes. Looking round, he saw prisoner crouched under a bed. Then, according to witness, commenced a game of hide-and-seek under and over the beds. Witness shouted for Pigott, the porter, who came in to help, but prisoner, who had a man’s shirt on, slipped out of the ward, and was seen w more. Witness then commenced to dress, and found that from his trousers two purses had been taken, containing £3 13*. One purse now contained 15s. 2d. ; when lost it contained two hulf-^overeign^ and eight half-crowns.—Detective Summers said at Leicester prisoner handed over the purse, saying it belonged to Sibthorp, and that 15s. 2d. which was left belonged to him. I saw the old man search my things to see if I had any, and I thought I’d search his. Ho chased me round the room, and poked me from under the bed with a broom ; and while they were looking for me in one room I got into another, and popped into the grounds and got away. I got some old clothes from a shed. took train to London, and from there to Leicester, where I bought myself a new suit. I've been here ever since until a man found me in his coal cellar, and took me to the police-station. ’’—On this charge the boy was remandedfar n. w^p»lc.
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London Middlesex Gazette
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Jul 05, 1902
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