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A MISSING HEIRLOOM.At the Tottenham Police-court on Saturday last, Minnie Eeugen, 19, of 34, Sirdar-roed, Wood-green, was charged with stealing a purse and contents, value ns, he property of Nellie Browning,Miss Browning is regularly employed at 51S* Green ianes, Harringay, a drapery and dressmaking establishment, and prisoner occasionally had outdoor work. She brought a blouse she had made and waited in ihe passage while it was examined in the work-room When Miss Browning was going home she found her purse had been taken from the pocket of her jacket, which had been hanging in the passage, X hree days later the matter was placed in the hands of Detective sergeant Kendall, and on Friday he went to 34, Sirdar-road. While he was waiting for the prisoner her mother called out to her not to poke the fire. He succeeded, owing to a remark the mother made, in retting an admission from the girl that she had the ornament off a string of beads that was in the purse, He took her to the station and then returned to the house and raked out the fire in the inner room and found the metal fittings of the purse Miss Browning did not mind the Joss of the purse and 3s 6d in it so much as the ornament, as that was formerly her mother’s, and before that her grandmother’s. Kendal! produced it.f risoner cried vociferously, and was remanded on her mother’s bail.
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Weekly Guardian
London, Middlesex, GB
Fri, Mar 27, 1903
Page 3
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