Mainsforth Terrace Stories

Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail, Monday, 13^th January, 1890:
DOCK HARPIES. A SHIP-CAPTAIN ROBBED. Before the West Hartlepool magistrates to-day, Ald. Gray presiding, two young women, named Mary Ann Wood and Fanny Farrell, old offenders, were charged with stealing £4 from the person of Lorenzo Hammer, foreign sea-captain, on the 10th inst.
Complainant, who caused considerable amusement while giving his evidence, said about nine o'clock on the night in question he visited Stein's Hotel in Mainsforth-terrace, and on leaving it some time afterwards he met both prisoners. They asked him for something drink, and after some deliberation he accompanied them to a public house where he paid for beer for both parties. After walking about the streets for a short time the accused said they would walk along with him to his ship, and when he got on board he found that his purse was missing.
Alf Busby, a policeman in the employ of the N.E.R. Company, said while on duty he saw the prisoners near complainant's vessel and ordered them away. They afterwards went in the direction of Middleton. He saw the captain later and he stated that he had lost his purse.
Sergeant Carvel, of the Hartlepool Borough Police Force, proved apprehending prisoners about half-past ten at a lodging house in Cleveland-street. They were afterwards handed over to Sergeant Cruickshanks of West Hartlepool.—Pleading guilty, Wood was committed to prison for four months, while Farrell was ordered to be imprisoned for six weeks.

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