Evidence Type: Newspaper Report
DATE: 10 August 1844
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
POLICE.
THURSDAY.
SARAH HALL had been remanded from the previous day on a charge of being one of those young ladies who prefer the night season to any other for perambulating the streets, and whose state of loneliness and dreariness in their own homes is such, that they sometimes, it is said, rather unfortunately solicit any indiscriminate gentleman they may meet with to accompany them to their abode. Delays, even if they be only in the sentencing of an offender, are dangerous, for to day Constable LYNCH stated, in addition to his previous charge, he had one of robbery to prefer against her. A ring was found in HALL’s possession, which it appeared had been “wrung” from a person of the name of OWENS, who, on being examined, stated that he had been treating the fair SARAH to a few balls, and that his ring certainly left by some dexterous haul his sinistral digitals, but as he could not distinctly deny the prisoner’s assertion, that he had for love or some other consideration presented it to her, she was only dealt with under the peculiar section of the Vagrant Act which applies to those who pedestrinate [sic] the streets beneath the musty shade of night, by two months to her Majesty’s Factory, and Mr. Owen received a hint that his “delicate attentions” might quit him in “peculiar position,” and more particularly as he lately become a married man, it might be just as well that he should bestow his attentions to his wife at home instead of mistresses abroad.
CITATION
Female Factory Online (femalefactoryonline.org), “Law Report of SARAH HALL,” https://femalefactoryonline.org/law-reports/p18440810/, accessed [insert current date].
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