Case 941

deputed one of their number to see Dr or Mrs B. in the first instance, and heard from them the story I have heard to day the letters which they have written would not have been written, and an entirely different tone adopted. In my view the Society should be much obliged to Dr. B. for not having prosecuted the girl, and so given her another chance to reprieve her character. According to Mrs. B. statement she has herself seen tradesmen in the neighbourhood, one of whom assured her that within a few weeks of the girl leaving she had spent from 7s/- to 9s/- in toffee - at another place she had purchased small fancy articles, all of which