Evidence Type: Newspaper Report
DATE: 20 July 1844
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
POLICE.
WEDNESDAY.
JOHN BUTLER and FRANCES CROFT.—The first a ticket-of-leave holder, and the latter hoping shortly to be so, were placed at the bar to answer a charge of disorderly conduct. It appeared that for some time past that the Butler had been surmised to be more a valet de chamber to MISS CROFT, than to his own lawful better half, and although delicate attentions make good breeding, there are certain cases in which breeding does not add to the lawful population of a colony. Prevention being ever better than cure of an evil it was deemed best on the first available opportunity to put a damp on the heat of JOHN’s misplaced attachment, and on the previous evening having been detected in an inflammatory state of head and heart, the first caused by the sellers of wines and spirits, and the second by love, escorting FANNY into a public-house, and treating her with lavish prodigality to a different species of “shrub” than what is found in the Botanical Garden, to the sore detriment of both his own and FANNY’s equilibrium, they were consigned to durance vile, and this morning FANNY was directed to be returned to the Factory, whilst her cicisbeo having been duly deposed to have parteken [sic] of so many “goes” of rum that he was quite “gone,” had to pay a fine of 10s. and receive a hint, that his platonic attachments, if persevered in, might some day or other lead to Hyde Park Barracks.
CITATION
Female Factory Online (femalefactoryonline.org), “Law Report of FRANCES CROFT,” https://femalefactoryonline.org/law-reports/p18440720/, accessed [insert current date].
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