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The West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser

5 July 1839, Friday


QUARTER SESSIONS - Trial of Prisoners

Jane AXFORD, 23, was charged with having stolen two baby caps and some lace, the property of her mistress, Mrs. Elizabeth KEAM, of St. Blazey. It appeared that the prisoner was lately a servant of the prosecutrix, and that on the 24th of June last, in consequence of something she had heard, Mrs. Keam searched out her box, in which was found the caps and lace, and some other property which belonged to the husband of the prosecutrix, and which had been taken out of the prosecutor's drawers some five or six weeks before. On being taken before the magistrate, the prisoner confessed to having stolen the articles in question, and to having on several occasions taken silver from the shop. Guilty. There was another indictment charging the prisoner with stealing money, which was not tried.

[same issue]

The report of the trials of the following prisoners appeared in our paper last week, but they received their sentences after we had gone to press: - Jane ASHFORD, for stealing property belonging to Mrs. Elizabeth Keam of St. Blamey, four months' hard labour.

[Wesley Johnston note: I am not sure that this was Elizabeth (nee Stephens) Keam, wife of Mathew Keam, but she seems to be the only Mrs. Elizabeth Keam who was living in St. Blazey in 1839.]