Evidence Type: Newspaper Report
DATE: 22 March 1845
POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WEDNESDAY.
CHARLOTTE PURDON, (bond) an assigned servant to MR. SPENCE, was brought before the Court for a violation of the tenth commandment. It appeared that some days since, on PURDEN’s being forwarded to the Bench for the purpose of being returned to the Factory in consequence of the place not (to her ideas) being at all suited to her, she made sundry and dire complaints against her mistress, whose position she considered that it there had not been some extraordinary mistake in the allotment of ranks in society, she ought to have occupied. An enquiry was therefore instituted, when it appeared that during CHARLOTTE’s short sojourn in the family she had adopted and perseveringly followed two lines of conduct, either to do no work at all, or what was equivalent, only just such as pleased her, and in such manner as she though proper, and her complain of deficiency of proper diet to be, her mistress not allowing poultry for the ordinary gratification of the young damsel’s palate—sentenced two months to the third class.
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