Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer — Wednesday 04 July 1877
Catherine Cannon (32), a married woman, living at Conisborough, was charged with having stolen two counterpanes, a pair of blankets, a shirt, two toilet covers, five skirts, and other articles, the property of Joseph Roberts, an engine driver.
Mr. A. Shirley prosecuted on behalf of the Great Northern Railway, from one of whose carriages the things had been stolen.
The prosecutor and his wife and children travelled from Holbeck to Wakefield on the 12th May last, and left behind them in the carriage a bundle containing the articles in question.
The prisoner travelled with them and went on to Doncaster, where she left the train, and no doubt took the bundle with her.
Subsequently she went on to Conisborough, and the next day the prosecutor, having missed his property and made inquiries, visited Conisborough, and found the woman, who eventually admitted the robbery.
She now, however, pleaded not guilty, and said the bundle had got amongst her own luggage unknown to her.
Guilty. One month’s imprisonment.