Evidence Type: Newspaper Report
27 April 1844
POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MONDAY
Before GILBERT ELLIOTT, Esq. P.M.
…
Perseverance Rewarded.—That by a fixed and determinate course of conduct we must eventually attain the object (in this instance the goal) of our wishes, is a truism that, in these days of enlightenment, few will pretend to controvert. Should they have the hardihood to do so, the present case will silence them. About eight days previously MISS MARY M’CANN returned to Parramatta, from a six month’s residence in the Female Factory, which had not been, by many occasions, her first sojourn there. Use is second nature—long residence familiarizes us to spots, and we quit them ever with regret. MISS M’CANN’s heart yearned to return to the spot where she had passed so many hours; and, on such intention bent, on two previous days, within a brief short week, had adopted strong measures to cause her appearance before the bench, and thence, by a natural course, to her loved abode. In the first instance, four and twenty hours in the cells paid the infractions of the rules of sobriety. On the second, the bench being hard and mild, a discharge was the result. M’CANN, finding her hopes of getting back to the Factory thus ruthlessly crushed, and that getting drunk would not ensure it, on Sunday last resolved to increase upon the offence, and having reached that stage of intoxication which is denominated “glorious,” forthwith began to pelt all such of her Majesty’s lieges as passed through Church-street with stones and other offensive missiles. The police having kindly interfered, and lodged MARY in the watch-house, she this morning obtained the desire of her ambition. Three months to the 3rd class at the Factory, as a rogue and vagabond.
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