Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle etc (Portsmouth, England), Saturday, October 20, 1860 . >From Winchester Sessions Emma Elkins, charged with stealing boots, at Carisbrooke; As a point of interest wonder how much a pair of boots cost & how much he had to pay for the company of Emma ? ------------------------------------------------------- 25 Aug 1860 Emma ELKINS , a common prostitute charged with robbing an elderly man names Jacob DENNES resisiding at Rookley, of a pair of boots, a joint of mutton , a piece of bacon and 2 handkerchiefs. It appeared by the evidence of the prosecutor, that he came in to town at 4pm and made his purchased, and that having had a bint of beer at one place, and another at some other place, besides other liquids at other places, the precise selection of which he could not describe, but at each it appears the prisoner was present, he found himself at 2am in the morning near the old burying ground, on his way home, with the prisoner hanging on to one of his arms and the two bundles hanging on to the other. Her loving endearments caused him to deposit the latter on the ground at his feet. Then the prisoner gave the alarm that a soldier was coming and speedily decamped, the old man looking about for his bundles found them to his great astonishment that they had vanished with the prisoner, who was ! apprehended the next morning in a common brothel in Cosham St, his boots were found but not one ounce of the eatables could be discovered. Committed to the quarter sessions Best wishes Ann