Evidence Type: Newspaper Report
DATE: 12 April 1845
POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MONDAY
JANE BENNETT, (bond) charged with absconding.
BENNETT it seemed, by process of a deed of assignment, made three weeks previously, had her services transferred from her Majesty to Mr. NIEL [sic], the schoolmaster, of this town, with whom, after remaining about a fortnight, she on Sunday week took advantage of “the schoolmaster being abroad” to absent herself from his establishment, considering that any school where there was no holiday was but a sorry seminary, and having been a whole two weeks at work for Mr. NIEL, took one week’s play for herself, before the exact locality where she had secreted herself was discoverable, when her sports were stopped, and it being evidence that JANE had mistaken the nature of the deed which gave her to Mr. NIEL, in supposing it to be one of release instead of uses upon trust, it was cancelled and the prisoner returned to the factory with directions that her best energies be devoted for two months to such employment as the third class of the establishment afforded.
CITATION
Female Factory Online (femalefactoryonline.org), “Law Report of JANE BENNETT,” https://femalefactoryonline.org/law-reports/p184504012, accessed [insert current date].
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