Lambeth Police Court, London. Before Mr. Hopkins.
Baby Stuart, aged nineteen, described as a chorus girl,
charged with obtaining food and lodging to the value
of 5-r., by false pretences, and with intent to defraud
Emma Brasier. Emma Brasier, complainant, lodging-
house keeper, of Atwell Road. Prisoner took apartments
at her house on the representation that she was employed
at the Crown Theatre. After prisoner had been in her
house two or three days, Mrs. Brasier made inquiries,
and, finding the girl s story untrue, gave her into custody.
Prisoner told the magistrate that she would have worked
had she not had such bad health. Six weeks hard labor.

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