ANECDOTES 
robbery was always attended with much difficulty. Upon 
one occasion a woman, a well-known pickpocket, was 
captured, handed over to the police, tried, convicted and 
sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment. 
Soon after the expiration of this term, information was 
sent to me that the lady had again entered the Gardens. 
Her dress being described to me, I sought her out, and 
meeting her in the Monkey-house I recognized her, but 
had entirely forgotten the name by which she was pre- 
viously known. As I intended that she should know that 
I knew who she was I walked quietly towards her and 
looking her full in the face, said, “ Mrs. Brown, I believe ? ” 
She indignantly retorted, “No! sir, my name is not 
Brown.” I replied, “ I am sorry I have made a mistake, 
as I thought I knew you.” 
I immediately quitted the Monkey-house and went 
across the lawn to the Fish-house, where I found the 
keeper Tennant, who had been the principal witness 
against her at the trial at which she had been convicted. 
I called him on one side and told him that the woman 
pickpocket was in the Gardens, and that I had left her 
in the Monkey-house. 
“ You keep a look-out, and when she leaves walk up and 
speak to her.” “ Oh 1 ” said Tennant, “ what can I say to 
her?” “ Well, anything — ask her if she is Mrs. Brown.” 
Tennant took the hinr and I saw him meet her. He 
spoke to her and she made a rush at him, but he 
escaped from her clutches, and, to my great relief, I saw her 
make hasty tracks to the exit gate, through which she 
passed in a great hurry, after having paid a shilling with- 
out any return for her money. 
I have never heard of her reappearance in the Gardens 
since. 
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