Accused told the Court that she had not stolen the pistol. She had borrowed it, and had intcnded to commit suicide with it. The owner did not know she had taken it, as she had picked it up from his dressing table when he was out of the room. When she found she could not use it she intended to return it, only she had been arrested before she could do so. She could not remember the afternoon she was arrested, but she remembered taking.
If a glass of whisky to give her courage.
The accused was discharged on entering into a recognizance in the tum of $200 to be of good behaviour! for 12 months.
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