Evidence Type: Newspaper Report
DATE: 22 March 1845
POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MONDAY.
SARAH ROBERTS, (bond) an assigned servant, was charged by her young master, for and on behalf of his respected parents—with conduct highly unbecoming, and vastly inconvenient.
According to the indictment it appeared that on the previous day, (Sunday) better the day better the deed, SARAH made a sally on the rules of sobriety, and returned home that satisfied with drinking that any body else’s eating was a matter of no consequence to her—whereby the family dinner was dished before it was cooked, and the roasts and boileds anything but come-at-table, and deeming the Sabbath a day devoted to rest, betook herself to her couch; where, making the most of her bed by having her frame so stretched forth, that extended (and not being a thing personage, may be added extensive) legs and arms, each occupied a corner, in which horizontal position some few hours afterwards she was found by the apprehending constable, snoring away with all the vigor [sic] (the steam being up), of a 40 horse power steam engine. A second count in the indictment recapitulated similar extravagancies at divers [sic] drevious [sic] times, and ROBERTS’ sabbatical offence being one of not an every day character—she was sentenced one month to the factory.
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