Evidence Type: Newspaper Report
DATE: 25 January 1845
POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WEDNESDAY.
ELIZABETH GREEDY (free) and WILLIAM BURR and WILLIAM HEYDON, two individuals labouring under the temporary inconvenience of being assigned to MR. J. BLACKETT, of Quaker-hill, were charged by that gentleman with converting one of his huts into a seraglio, and enjoying certain pastimes therein, sorely to the detriment of the corn field and such other agricultural employments as his farm afforded.
GREEDY, it appeared, was a young female of very roamantic ideas, and betraying a singular fondness towards the prison population in the regions of Prospdct [sic: Prospect], visiting each and every hut doomed to the residence of these persons, when the beef tubs and ration bags presented a full account, and not being chary of her presence, staying a night or two, perhaps three, depending on the circumstance of the grub holding out, and the agreeableness of the society. MR. BLACKETT not admiring these visits, and finding that although he had given his men warning it was no notice to quit to GREEDY, called in the assistance of constable WARD, who, proceeding to the hut of the prisoners, in the dead hour of the night, found GREEDY fast locked in the arms of BURR and sleep, and, as from the circumstance of HEYDON being sleeping in the same apartment, there was a reasonable suspicion that ELIZABETH had been kept between them, he was with the Cupid and Psyche, of Quaker-hill, taken in charge. GREEDY, who held in her arms a pledge of affection of that hue which would induce belief that she was not impartial to “men of colour,” pleaded love, but that all-conquering passion had little effect with the Bench, who made it all Betty with ELIZABETH, by three months in the 3rd class, whilst BURR, for being what he called a “wictim [sic] to seductive women,” was sent ten days to the cells to cool his courage. HEYDON escaped with a reprimand, and a promise that the pursuit of his fellow-prisoners’ example, would secure him a similar result.
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