A NICE YOUNG LADY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIL, Issue 266, 9 November 1877, Page 4

A NICE YOUNG LADY.

At the Westminster Police Court lately, Ada Milly Travener, 16, described! as an actress, was charged with stealing some blankets, sheets, china, &_V trout coff.e house, 486, Kind's Road, Chelsea. Prisoner, who is a very handsome girl, conducted herself in the moat: estroardiaary manner throughout the whole of the proceedings. — Prosecutor stated that at one o'clock on Friday morning a cabman brought the prisoner, and she took a lodging At his bouse; at ten o,clock she ordered a cup of tea, a rouaJ of toast, and a newspaper, for which sho paid, and then went away in a cab. — The prisoner: There- wasn't, enough butter on the toast. — Mr D 'Eyucourt asked tbe prisoner, who became violent, to be quiet, and conduct herself properly, at which she burst out laughing, and balanced herself on the edge of the dock, and then tying a handkerchief tightly round her neck, said she would choke herself. -— Prsecutor said ihe things were worth 25s. — Prisoner: About 2|d, you mean. — Mr D'Eyncourt wished 1 to know if tbe. prisoner was sober, or in her right senses.— ■ Davis (assistant gaoler) stated she was sober. It was wickedness. — Prosecutor said she was _ stranger to him.— Edward Sarson, a pawnbroker's assistant, produced some tea cups pledged by the prisoner for 3s.— Prisoner: Don't blush. Who aire you calling a prisoner? FU hit: you in the eye. How many things have you stolen in your time? — Prosecutor identified the cups. — Prisoner: Don't cry about it. — Wm. F. Roberts, a cabdriver, said he was called to take the prisoner up at the coffee-house. — Prisoner: Yes, and a nice old robber you are, — The cabman said he took the prisoner up; she was very bulky, ao much ao that she could hardly climb into the cab. After driving her about to various places, he went to Battersea Bridge, and she would not pay the toll ; be afterwards drove to a pawnbroker's, and there she pledged the cups and saucers. He looked through the trap of the cab, and saw the prisoner taking blankets and sheets 1 from around her body, and wrapping them in a newspaper, and he took her to the police station. — Prisoner : Yes, I'll givo you something wben I get hold of you. -—The Cabman said he had not been paid his fare.— Prironer: You wont have any money out of me; I'll murder you when I get hold of you; I'll pull the nose out of your face. — Mr D'Eyncourt told the prisoner to be quiet, and not make grimaces. — Prisoner began gesticulating violently, and said she was a iunatie— didn't she look like one ? She felt the madness coming on her. Police-constable J. Marney said her clothes were at a house where the cabman called. They were detained for 30s. rent she owed. Prisoner said she would give them 30 " bobs" in the eye; she wanted a snooze aod a wash. — Mr D*Eyncourt asked the prisoner how old she was; — Prisoner: Seventeen come Sunday. — Mr D'Eyncaurt remanded her ior a week, and she jumped out of tbe dock, shouting, "Oh, Emma ! " — On being removed to the cell she tried to strangle herself, and smashed the things on which her food was given her.