Evidence Type: Newspaper Report
DATE: 1 February 1845
POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MONDAY.
JANE CHAMBERS (bond) and ELIZABETH STANLEY were charged, the first with absconding, and the second with harbouring.
CHAMBERS was an assigned servant to the Rev. MR. TROUGHTON, of Prospect, where, after some few months retirement from the busy haunts of the town, she thought it time for her to devote a few days to the revisiting of old acquaintances, and accordingly left her master’s service, without going through the very necessary preliminary of asking leave of absence. STANLEY had made her welcome to such accommodation as her residence afforded, and in the fervency of friendship, had gone the extent to bounce INSPECTOR FOX, who was busy and impertinent enough to enquire respecting the condition in life of her visitor, that she was as free as the Governor’s lady, ‘and was awaiting the arrival of her husband from Penrith, thereby, for once in away, making a goose of Fox. Suspicion subsequently arising that CHAMBERS was not exactly what she was represented to be, she was apprehended—confessed herself a runaway, and was sentenced two months to the 3rd class, and STANLEY being warned that if her “boarding establishment” was ever again found to be a mere “public house,” the consequence would be serious, was discharged.
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