THEFT
The charwoman is described as the first to enter Old Joe's shop with a heavy bundle, and is directly involved in the discussion about taking items from a dead man. She admits to helping herself to the goods and justifies her actions.
CHARWOMAN
'Let the charwoman alone to be the first!' cried she who had entered first...; 'We knew pretty well that we were helping ourselves before we met here, I believe. It's no sin. Open the bundle, Joe.'; 'If he wanted to keep 'em after he was dead, a wicked old screw,' pursued the woman, 'why wasn't he natural in his lifetime? If he had been, he'd have had somebody to look after him when he was struck with Death, instead of lying gasping out his last there, alone by himself.'; 'It's the truest word that ever was spoke,' said Mrs. Dilber. 'It's a judgment on him.'; 'I wish it was a little heavier judgment,' replied the woman: 'and it should have been, you may depend upon it, if I could have laid my hands on anything else. Open that bundle, old Joe, and let me know the value of it. Speak out plain. I'm not afraid to be the first, nor afraid for them to see it.'