>From the Illustrated Usk Observer and Raglan Herald, 2 July 1864 - MONMOUTHSHIRE QUARTER SESSIONS ABERSYCHAN.--A WEAK CASE. Mary Macarthy, 19, servant, was charged with stealing half a sovereign, the money of James Phillips, on the 29th May, and Timothy Ahern was charged with receiving the same, well knowing it to have been stolen. Mr. Smythies, for the prosecution, withdrew the charge against Ahern. Prosecutor deposed that he was a beer-house keeper and butcher, at Abersychan, and the female prisoner lived with him as servant; on the day named he received half a sovereign, which he marked and placed in his trowsers pocket; he saw it in the pocket on the following morning, which was Sunday, before going to church, but on his return it was gone; he marked it when he placed it in his pocket. On Sunday evening the same half-sovereign was given to him by prisoner in payment for beer, and on Monday morning he found the same coin in his waistcoat pocket, he having left it the night before in his trowsers pocket. The learned chairman, in putting the case to the jury, said he did not see the slightest evidence against the prisoner, and she was acquitted, as also was Ahern. Welsh newspapers online at National Library of Wales http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/en/home