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Bell's New Weekly Messenger
01 Dec 1839
Police
Bow Street
Robbing An Employer
A respectable looking young woman, named Charlotte Bache, attired in [deep?] mourning, and described as a milliner, was charged with stealing a number of books, a quantity of silk, lace, and other articles, from Mrs Wood, her ___ employer, who resides at Worcester. It appeared that the prisoner had been the service of the prosecutrix for eight months, and such was the confidence reposed in her, that she had the entire management of her mistress's establishment. On information being given that she had come up to London, Mrs Wood immediately started for town, and the assistance of the constable she was discovered lodging in Duke Street, Bloomsbury, with the whole of the property, which she admitted she had stolen from her mistress, who carries on the business of dress-maker and milliner at Worcester. Mr Hall, upon the prisoner declining to make any defence, ordered her to be removed to Worcester, to be examined by the proper authorities of that town.
Globe
06 Dec 1839
It having been discovered by Mrs Hood, dress-maker, of the College-yard, that her forewoman, Charlotte Bache, who had recently quitted her service and gone to reside in London, had carried on a system of extensive depredations upon her property, and purloined a considerable quantity of valuable silks, velvets, &c., Mr Hood, her husband, having by deposition of a witness, taken before Mr Sidebottom, satisfactorily ascertained the fact. proceeded to London by mail on Tuesday evening, the 26th ult., and having procured, immediately on his arrival, the aid of a police-sergeant of the F division, in plain clothes, went straight to the lodgings of the suspected party, and apprehended her. The property was found in a box at her lodgings, but the considerations of her previous good character, the fact of her being a widow with two children, and the extreme contrition she expressed for her offence, coupled with the knowledge that any proceedings taken against her would implicate a female of respectable connections, and whose character has hitherto been unsullied, induced Mr Hood generously to forego a prosecution, and the prisoner was liberated. She was a female possessing considerable personal attractions, and was shortly to have been married to a highly respectable young man residing in London. On Thursday morning Mrs Hood received a communication from her, stating that before it reached her she (Bache) would be no more, and on the following morning Mrs Hood received another letter from her intended husband, stating that after much research he had discovered her in a hospital, whither she had been conveyed on its having been ascertained that she had taken a large dose of laudanum with the intention of poisoning herself. The occurrence has given great pain to the family of Mr Hood, and ought to be a warning to all how they yield to temptation. Mr Hood has replied to the last letter, but no answer has yet been received from the young man, to who she was on the eve of being united.
Worcestershire Chronicle
