Evidence Type: Newspaper Report
DATE: 5 October 1844
POLICE.
THURSDAY.
MARY DAVIS, a tall, though not elegant female of a certain age, was charged with being found in the streets of Parramatta in a state of inebriation, very much to the annoyance of her Majesty’s liege subjects, whose nocturnal slumbers she was disturbing by her attempts at imitating Catalani. The unfortunate young lady was recognised by the Bench on her first entrance, the Police Magistrate recollecting being introduced to her on a former occasion, when a three months residence in that healthy abode yclept the Factory had been recommended. MARY confessed to drunkenness, but promised to quit Parramatta if let off. The Bench said that they would let her off this time, but if she came there again she would get six months instead of three. She was then fined six shillings for drunkenness or 24 hours in the cells.
CITATION
Female Factory Online (femalefactoryonline.org), “Law Report of MARY DAVIS,” https://femalefactoryonline.org/law-reports/p18441005-4/, accessed [insert current date].
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