Mr. Wilkinson inquired if prisoners had anything to say why they should not be remanded.
The male prisoner replied that he had got the things from his sister (one of the female prisoners) for money owing to him.
Mr. Raynor said he had no doubt it would turn out that the man was the thief, and that the women were innocent. It was very dastardly in Peace to seek to criminate his sister for the sake of clearing himself.
Remanded until Friday.
The same paper of October 21st, 1854, contains the second examination.
RECOVERY OF A LARGE QUANTITY OF STOLEN PROPERTY.
At the Town Hall, yesterday, Charles Peace, Mary Nield, his sister, and Emma James, were placed at the bar on several charges of felony.
On Monday last James offered a pair of boots in pledge at the shop of Messrs. Wright, of Westbar, which answering the description of a portion of the property stolen from the residence of Mr. H. E. Hoole, she was detained.
The prisoner Peace then came forward and claimed the boots, and was given into custody.
Inspector Sills and Sergeant Marsland then searched his house in Bailey-lane, and there found a large quantity of jewellery and wearing apparel, the proceeds of robberies effected at the residences of Henry Elliott Hoole, Esq., Crookes Moor House; R. Stuart, Esq., Brincliffe Edge; Mr. George Fawcett Platt, of Priory Villa, Sharrow-lane; and Mr. Brown, of Broomhall-street.