Evidence Type: Newspaper Report
23 March 1844
POLICE INTELLIGENCE
SATURDAY.
Before Messrs. ELLIOTT, ANDERSON and FORSTER.
ELIZABETH McALASTER, a ticket-of-leave holder, was charged by MR. JAMES SHEPPARD, of Chicken Bay, with absconding from her hired service before the expiration of her written agreement. It appeared the prisoner entered into an engagement on the 8th of February last for six months, as a general servant, and on Monday week she obtained permission to go out for a few hours, but did not return, until her master found her in charge of a constable coming up to Parramatta, on board a steamer, having been apprehended in Sydney without a pass, and had her ticket cancelled by the Sydney bench. She was sentenced, in addition, to imprisonment and hard labor in the Factory for two calendar months, for absconding.
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