Evidence Type: Newspaper Report
13 April 1844
POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
TUESDAY.
Before GILBERT ELLIOTT, Esq. P.M.
…
JANE SHAW and SELINA BROWN, both assigned to CAPTAIN WESTON, J. P., of Liverpool, were charged with the following disorderly conduct.
It appeared that that gentleman, in addition to the services of the two young ladies now before the Court, employed on his establishment a third female, who, happening to be an emigrant, a continual bickering was occurring between her and MISS SHAW—that female entertaining a. most despicable opinion of any one who did not arrive in the colony in what she termed “the regular way, as she had done.” On Sunday afternoon the harmony of the kitchen tea talk was abruptly put an end to by MISS SHAW flinging in the said emigrant’s face the fragments of a sup of best Hosonskin, accompanied by the gentle insinuation “that some like tea,” in consequence of some opinion being expressed not exactly in accordance with her orders, the noise of the melee that ensued reached the drawing-room, and on CAPTAIN W’s repairing to the scene of action and descanting upon the impropriety of the proceeding, he was informed by SHAW, that she was “true independent:” she cared not for him or the terrors of the Parramatta Bench, nor MR. ELLIOTT to boot, or even SIR GEORGE himself. Upon her being ordered to the watch-house, BROWN, equally ready to make a character for herself, insisted upon becoming a female “Pylades” and accompanying her friend, SHAW, and, as a reward for her attachment, was permitted to accompany her friend in a two month’s sojourn at the factory.
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