About a
fortnight since there was stolen from the house
of John Hockin, a labourer of the parish od
Sithney, a small bag, containing cash in the
amount of about 10 pounds, the property of his
son.
Suspicion
having fallen on two or three of the neighbors, a
warrant was procured and their houses searched,
but to no effect.
The young man,
however, being unwilling to give up his money
without some further research, resolved last
Saturday to go to the conjurer and declared his
intention to some of the neighbors of going the
next morning.
Superstition
effected what honesty could not; the terrified
thief, in the course of the night, brought back
six guineas (perhaps all that was left), and
dropped it in at the door of the house whence it
had been taken, to the joy of the family, who
found it in the morning.
