Evidence Type: Newspaper Report
DATE: 3 August 1844
POLICE.
MONDAY.
DRUNKARDS.—There was a very fair sprinkling of this class, and among them an old acquaintance. If our readers will refer to their files of our paper about three months since [27 April 1844] they will find how one Miss MARY M’CANN went to the Factory for that time, for infraction of the Vagrant Act. The period of the order which obtained MARY board, lodging and quarters, at the expense of her Majesty, having expired in the early part last week she, as a matter of course, curtsied, on the morning after her discharge from the establishment, to the Bench for drunkenness, and was fined in the lowest penalty. On Saturday night, however, MARY wound up the cares of the week, and herself into the bargin [sic: bargain], and duly arrived at the lodgings mostly patronised by her when in town, the Watch-house. As nothing beyond half a dozen (!!!) cases of drunkenness were proved on information against her she escaped another three months’ domiciliation, and was fined 15s., or 7 hours in the cells, which the exchequer not being in a situation to afford, and the Chief Constable not taking promissory notes at long dates, she had to be “endorsed” over to the Gaoler.
CITATION
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