[Editor: This untitled article, regarding a woman stealing from a cemetery, was published in The Advocate (Melbourne, Vic.), 28 April 1877.]
[Flora Gleeson]
Flora Gleeson was on Wednesday brought up on remand, charged with stealing two flower stands and a marble slab from the Roman Catholic division of the Melbourne Cemetery.
It was stated that the trustees had hitherto expended nearly £100 in endeavouring to discover the author of the numerous petty larcenies that were daily being perpetrated from graves in the cemetery, but without success.
The prisoner, who pleaded guilty, was fined £5, or in default three months’ imprisonment, with hard labour.
Source:
The Advocate (Melbourne, Vic.), 28 April 1877, p. 10
Editor’s notes:
author = the creator, founder, inventor, maker, or originator of something (e.g. of a crime, event, idea, plan, or scheme); the composer or writer of a literary work (e.g. an article, book, essay, novel, play, poem), especially referring to someone who has written a book, or someone who writes books as their main occupation
See: “author: noun”, Oxford English Dictionary
[Editor: Changed “Wendesday” to “Wednesday”.]
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