Evidence Type: Newspaper Report
DATE: 25 January 1845
POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
SATURDAY.
MARY DUNDAS stood charged with having been found sleeping under the Colonnade in George-street, at a very early hour of the morning. The constable not being of the sect of Stoic Philosophers, and considering the knowledge she would impart in such a place and at such an hour, not at all conducive in its tendency to elevate the moral tone of society, and having a sort of dread that a cold was not the only thing that might be catcht hold of, transferred her to the watch-house. DUNDAS frankly admitted that she came within the meaning of the Vagrant Act, and considering that she had served her Majesty for years, as one good turn deserved another, it became the Sovereign’s office now to serve her. She required lodgings and temporary retirement, and as it appeared from the statement of the Chief Constable, that she had adopted most persevering means to obtain the same, her exertions were not allowed to pass unrewarded, and she was sent two months to the Factory, as a house of correction.
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