Evidence Type: Newspaper Report
DATE: 10 August 1844
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
POLICE.
MONDAY.
GEORGE PTOLEMY, (bond) messenger to the Factory, was arranged under the following circumstance: — On Saturday afternoon as the Chief Constable was riding along Church-street, he perceived an individual, whose grey uniform betokened him to belong to the “Queen’s Own,” going a-head very fast and suddenly hide himself from public view by a disappearance into a public-house. RYAN halted, and waited his re-appearance, and when PTOLEMY emerged, he, the latter, discovered that while he had been getting a “ball” the Chief Constable had been having a “pipe.” Thinking that, as a whim of the head had got him into danger, a trick of the heels had better get him out of difficulty, he accordingly started off at full speed, and broke cover through the bush, and brushed off. The Chief followed and after a smart run came up, and sounded death to all PTOLEMY’s hopes of reaching the Factory. The very strong effluvia of rum, which scented the air, caused an examination of the prisoner’s garments, and as there were traces of that liquid having been poured over him, a search was instituted along the road he came, and by the side of a water-hole was found a very appropriate vessel (a pickle bottle) with a small quantity of rum in it, and which had evidently been thrown away in the heat of the race. The Factory discipline forbidding the admission of ardent spirits to the establishment, the messenger was sent fourteen days to the Cells, and ordered to be returned to Hyde Park Barracks.
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Female Factory Online (femalefactoryonline.org), “Law Report of GEORGE PTOLEMY,” https://femalefactoryonline.org/law-reports/p18440810/, accessed [insert current date].
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