Evidence Type: Newspaper Report
11 May 1844
POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WEDNESDAY
ELIZABETH WILKINSON, ticket-of-leave holder for this district, was charged by INSPECTOR FOX with being drunk at a late hour on the previous night, in Church-street. WILKINSON in her defence did not deny having partaken of a social glass, but between her opinion and that of INSPECTOR FOX, there was a difference “wide as the Poles asunder;”—she affirming it that so long as she was capable of proceeding to her home, which she was doing when apprehended, she could not be drunk, and he, (FOX) on the contrary, asserting that a walk which was describing alternate but irregular angles from north to the south side of Church-street, was a proof of anything but devotion to Teetotalism. The Constable’s statement prevailed, and as ELIZABETH had, within a very short period, made three appearances before their worships, under similar peculiar circumstances, she was returned to the Factory, being recommended to the favorable consideration of his Excellency for a cancellment of her ticket.
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