WOMEN AS BURGLARS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8339, 28 January 1913, Page 10

WOMEN AS BURGLARS

ALLEGATIONS THAT A GIRL BROKE INTO A HOUSE-

FIAT ROBBERY.

LONDON,. December 15.

AA'oroen accused of the crime of burglary have occupied the attention of tho courts during tfie week. In one instance Jasmin Marcus, seventeen, taiiorcss, was indicted before Judge Rentoul ior burglary in the dwelling fiouso of Mr George Lloyd, Williams, 8, backvillo street, VV and stealing a coat and other property. In the early hours ot the 24th ult. P.G. •Groves saw the prisoner come out of Sackville street into V igo street. She was carrying a large package. He asked her what it contained, and she said. “My lady’s things.” He was not satisfied, and took her to the police station, where tho package was found to contain a coat and other articles stolen from the premises of the prosecutor, which had been burglariously entered through a basement window. The prisoner said the package was pushed into her hands by a Jewess. Tho jury found the prisoner guilty ol receiving the property, knowing it to have been stolen, and Judge Rentoui sentenced her to six nionths' imprisonment in tho second division.

In another case four jpunous supposed to have been concerned in the daylight robbery at tho flat of Mr Ernest BcJiifl in Dover street, Piccadilly, recently, appeared at Marlborough street Police Court- Tho prisoners, Harry Roberts, forty, Walter Laud, forty, Cissie Roberts, twenty-seven, all of Marchmont street, W.C., and William Mayze, forty, of Verona street, Battersea, are charged with breaking anjl entering the flat and stealing thirteen diamond buttons, four gold tie-pins, and other property, worth £2OO. The three male prisoners are described as porters. Detective Leach gave evidence of the arrest otf Harry Roberts on the platform t- 1 Russell square Tube Station. He told him he was arrested on suspicion of being concerned with a woman, Cissie Wilkes, who was bound over at London Sessions in July for breaking and entering flats in Kensington. Haverstock Hill, and Sloane square. Going to Marchmont street witness saw the female prisoner, whom Roberts described as his wife. She gave her name as Cissie Wilkes. In her bedroom witness found a jemmy and other housebreaking implements, and J. suit case containing £4O or £SO worth of the jewellery stolen from the Dover street flat, with a “police pawn list" describing some of the jewellery. When questioned Harry Roberts said: 'She is innocent. Don't take her. She only did what I told her. She took the olame for the last jobs. She is a good girl. She only came up from Yorkshire lost Monday. I sent for her. The stuff came from 26, Dover street. She did not go into the flat, but remained outside while I did the job." Laud was bronchi in, witness continued, and at first said Roberts was hi s brother, but afterwards said they were not brothers, although people thought they were. At the noli'-.-station Mayze said liis wife worked rt the flat as a charwoman. He had "often been there to see her. Roberts bad triven him £lO for his “corner." The prisoners were remanded.