A Severe Sentence.
We learn from a Home exchange that in a village near London a charwoman was sentenced to a ong term of imprisonment for removing books from the premises of a bachelor, to which she had access. In extenuation of her crime she pleaded that the books were only borrowed, and that after reading them she fully intended to return them. As it was proved the prisoner had carefully concealed this fact from the owner of the books, and he was entirely' at her mercy if she chose to be dishonest, the Magistrate commented severely on her conduct, and to mark his sense of the dangerous nature of the crime, sentenced her to six months imprisonment with hard labor.
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 36, 28 August 1883, Page 2
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121A Severe Sentence. Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 36, 28 August 1883, Page 2
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