Stolen clothes and counterfeit cash
"Thank you kindly, sir," and with a flamboyant curtsey, Ann Beazley left the dock - relieved at being sent to prison and not deported. She and Ann McCann had been convicted of stealing clothing from John Tuck and his wife at whose Southampton house the women of easy virtue had been renting a room. A conviction at the towns quarter sessions in 1832 was inevitable after the missing items had been found in their possession and both were expecting the worst. "What do you wish to say before ...
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