On the other side of the bridge, the patroles saw the prisoner Smith deliver something to the child, and point out the shop of Mr.Isaacs, a fruiterer, in Bridge Street, Westminster.

The child went in, and asked for a juicy lemon, and gave a counterfeit shilling in payment.

Mrs.
Isaacs had no suspicion from the tender age of the utterer, and its respectable appearance, that the money was bad, and was about to give change, when one of the officers entered, and took the deluded child into custody, whilst his companion secured the elder prisoner (Smith), and on searching her pockets he found twelve bad shillings, some parcels of snuff, several balls of cotton and worsted, and other trifling articles, which the child had purchased in the course of the day.

The officers who had secured them, learned from the child that her parents lived in Cross Street, East Lane, Walworth, and that Smith had taken her out for a walk.

The patrol instantly communicated the circumstance to the child's parents, who were hard-working honest people, and their feelings on hearing that their infant had been seduced into the commission of such a crime, can be more easily conceived than described.