Theft
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Former Governess’s Gentlemen’s Oyster Supper Cancelled due to Arrest for Luggage Theft, 1878-9
From the Staffordshire Sentinel of 1 November 1878, this account of Edith Shaw, a former governess with a taste for the high life, charged at the Dublin Commission Court with stealing passengers’ luggage at railway stations: Edith managed a number… Continue reading
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Moral Unsoundness as a Defence to Bank Robbery, 1926
From the Southern Star, 6 February 1926, this interesting account of the trial of Herbert McBride Campbell and Wilfred Watkins for armed robbery of £70 from the Greystones sub-branch of the Northern Bank, the robbers having arrived and left on… Continue reading
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Money to Burn as Spurned Servant Starts Supposedly Supernatural Fire, 1914
From the Strabane Weekly News, 31 January 1914: “COUNTY DONEGAL MYSTERY Disappearance of £300 DOMESTIC SERVANT CHARGED WITH THEFT Remarkable Evidence of Superstition At Lifford Crown Sessions – before His Honour Judge Cooke – a domestic servant named Winifred McCarron… Continue reading
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Juvenile Burglars Stranded at Sea, 1904
From the Wicklow People, 27 August 1904, this Dublin Police Court story of a trio of schoolboy miscreants whose sins ended them up in some very cold water indeed: “A romantic story was told about three lads who appeared in… Continue reading
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The Great Dublin Lodging House Theft, 1847
From the Freeman’s Journal, 29 May 1847: “MOST EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF ROBBING HOUSES IN DUBLIN The following very curious case came to light yesterday and perhaps in the annals of clever rogues, the hero of the present story has been… Continue reading