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However, these may be of interest to your friend re Joseph WHITEHEAD:
"QUEEN-SQUARE.- George Edwards, a well-dressed young man, was yesterday placed at the bar, charged with stealing four or five umbrellas from the robing-room of the Court of Queen's Bench.
Joseph Whitehead, a waiter, stated that at half-past four that afternoon he saw the defendant go to the umbrella-stand and help himself to several, which he was proceeding towards the stairs with, when witness stopped him and gave him into custody.
Prisoner declared he did not mean to take them. He was merely looking for his own.
He was remanded until this day (Saturday)."
Morning Post, Saturday, Dec. 11, 1841
"James Whitehead, a waiter at the Belgrave Mansions Company, Grosvenor-gardens, was charged with stealing a bottle of sherry, value 3s., the goods of Mr. Alexander McKinnon, a gentleman residing in the mansions.
Mr. Charles States, the manager of the company, said the defendant had been in the service of the company four months. Last Sauturday, from information he received, he saw the bottle of sherry in the pantry cupboard belonging to the prisoner, and taxed him with the theft. The prisoner was then asked whether it was McKinnon's sherry, and he said "Yes;" and then upon the waiter who had informed against him, being confronted with him, he said "It was a 'plant,' and had been put there by someone else." Witness then asked him how that could be when he had acknowledged the sherry to be his. Mr. McKinnon offered him to leave the house in five minutes or be given into custody.
Charles Hussey, the fellow-waiter of the defendant, proved that he opened a fresh case of sherry, and one of the bottles was missed. This bottle he saw the prisoner put into the cupboard.
Mr. States wished to recommend the prisoner to mercy on account of his wife and family. His offence was attributable to drink.
He was remanded to this day week."
Morning Post, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 1873
