A Mistress charged with Steeling from her servant.
--A German woman, named
Louise Rumpt, made complaint before the
Mayor yesterday against
Mrs. Louisa Coleburn, for breaking open her trunk a day or two since and stealing therefrom $820 in Confederate and corporation notes.
From the mass of almost unintelligible testimony, which was given in broken
German, we give the following as the gist of the evidence:
The witnesses for the complainant asseverate that during the absence from home of
Miss Rumpt, who has been for several months back in the employment of
Mrs. Coleburn as a servant, her trunk was broken open and the money taken from the pocket of a dress which was in it. Afterwards
Mr. Coleburn expressed gratification that the girl had left his employ, at the same time remarking that his wife had forced the lock to her trunk and taken out the money.
For the defence it was proven the for some time back
Mr. Coleburn had lost various sums of money, and very recently a boarder in the house lost a valuable penknife.
Having reason to suspect the servant girl as the thief, advantage was taken of her absence from home by
Mrs. Coleburn to institute a search among her things, when in her trunk, the lock to which was forced, were found the knife and some money, amounting to a little over $400, some of which Coleburn recognized as a part of that which he had stolen from him. Subsequently
Miss Rumpt acknowledged, according to the testimony of a witness, that she had taken the knife which he had lost, and that the money found in her trunk was some which she had received from a lady for value received.
In consideration of the fact that
Mrs. Coleburn had heretofore lost money, it was decided by herself and husband to retain the money found in the trunk.
The
Mayor postponed further examination till this morning.
