Hi
The Standard's newspaper account details the Lambeth police court (petty sessions now called magistrates court). The outcome was their was a plea of not guilty and they were remanded (with bail set of £20) for a trial at the South London sessions (quarter sessions). If that trial took place it does not mean Louise was convicted. She claimed she was only taking what belonged to her (a painoforte etc) for which she left a note and that her husband physically assualted her, something he admitted to but only what she provoked him. She was the housekeeper of John Gabbitas who helped her remove the property.
If she did stand trial and was convicted the sentence may have been a relatively short one, months or a couple of years, so she may not have still been in prison by the time of the census in 1901. If the sentence was longer she still may have left prison on parole and not served her full sentence.
For a woman living in London you might expect her to serve any prison time she did have to serve in a London prison.
The London quarter session records will be held at the London Metropolitan Archives.
John Gabbitas' age was given as 59 in the newspaper account, but from the 1891 census the John Gabbitas, occupation civil servant (deputy office keeper at her majesty's treasury in the newspaper account) was aged 60. RG12 399 folio 53. He was recorded as John R Gabbitas born Bromley Kent and married (marriage in 1852 in Marylebone).
Deaths Mar 1907 GABBITAS John Rosewell 79 Blean 2a 723
John Rosewell Gabbitas left a will. He was living in Canterbury a treasury pensioner. His executor was Frederick Gabbitas.
The couple were together on the 1901 census (I can't view the full image).
1901 census RG13
Scarborough Yorkshire
Louise A Atkinson 35 Appleby Westmoreland
John R Gabbitas 72 Bromley Kent
Esther Mann 26 Barnsley Yorkshire
Regards
Valda
