Evidence Type: Newspaper Report
DATE: 13 September 1845
POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
TUESDAY.
BRIDGET EDWARDS was charged with being drunk—and to which the constable added that of being highly disorderly, using filthy and disgusting language, and insulting a highly respectable female—and it appeared that her lord and master after trying gentle means to get her inside the house and keep her quiet, had gone on the other tack, and being a shoemaker, given her a good welting, in consequence whereof the accused stated to the Bench that she was very bad, a fact which the Court did not for a moment doubt, but the subsequent allegation that she was unable to take any more punishment, was that “duberous” it was resolved to try the matter, and as by being three times drunk within a comparatively short period—she had come within the meaning of a clause in the Vagrant Act—she was sent for two months to the third class at the Female Factory.
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