Evidence Type: Newspaper Report
DATE: 7 September 1844
Mrs. BETSEY BARLOW was introduced to the notice of the Bench as a drunkard, but before she left the Court Justice rated her a rogue and vagabond. On Saturday night her better half having, after she had turned every thing out of windows, sent her to follow them out of the door, the lady, in a playful exuberance of mirth, was beating the devil’s tattoo on the portal of her establishment, accompanying the music with what musicians style a forte furioso, recitative the main burden of the libretto of which was that her husband, MR. BARLOW, was a blackguard, and in his ways and demeanour, any thing but a man or a gentleman. The residents in MRS. BARLOW’s quarter of Parramatta not being partial to the midnight serenade handed the songstress over to the Police; and when Mrs. B. was asked what she had to say for herself, she called upon her husband, on which that ill-used individual stepped forth and said, he could say nothing. He was evidently a man of many sorrows: the sharpness of his wife’s tongue had cut deep into him, and his rueful aspect told too plainly he had experienced many a dab on the chops. He, however, did affirm that his wife was a Destructive. She had smashed his earthenware, cracked his pots, and had such an “hurrah” fight, that devil a cheer there was left. Mrs. B. intimated that her husband was one of those people who did not confine themselves to truth, but a slight specimen of her forensic abilities, with which she had commenced favouring the Court, coupled with the fact that she had passed seven months out of the last year in various penitentiaries contrived for the reformation of Tipplers, decided her case, which was three months in the Female Factory.
CITATION
Female Factory Online (femalefactoryonline.org), “Law Report of BETSEY BARLOW, https://femalefactoryonline.org/law-reports/p18440907-3/, accessed [insert current date].
RELATED CONTENT
See Original
© Copyright Michaela Ann Cameron 2018
The Female Factory Online 