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at the Bow Street police court, yesterday, with being 

 drunk and disorderly. * Mog 1 ,' who entered the court 

 in her characteristic style, said, ' Ah, Sir John Bridge, 

 a happy New Year to you!' (Laughter.) Constable 

 343 E stated that prisoner was found drunk in Drury 

 Lane. Bush, the assistant gaoler, said that the prisoner 

 was a hard-working woman when sober, but could 

 not keep from drink. She had several times been 

 placed in a home, and on one occasion had stayed 

 eleven months, and at the end of that period re- 

 ceived a very good character. She had spent seven- 

 teen years out of the last twenty in prison. Sir 

 John Bridge thought that the best thing that could 

 be done for the defendant was to put her in such a 

 position that she could not have access to drink. 

 He therefore ordered her to find two sureties to 

 keep the peace for six months." Daily News, 9th 

 January 1891. 



" Margaret West, a woman of the same class, who 

 was said to have been before a magistrate upwards 

 of fifty times, was charged with being drunk and 

 disorderly. Defendant (to Mr. Vaughan): 'It is all 

 through the drink.' Mr. Vaughan : ' Then why do 

 you get so much to drink ? ' Defendant : ' I am going 

 to have a try this time.' Assistant-gaoler Bush said 

 the defendant had had many trials. She had only 

 recently signed the pledge. She was fined forty 

 shillings, or in default twenty-one days' imprisonment." 

 Daily News, 27 th January 1891. 



Such persons as are here referred to are not re- 

 sponsible agents, and the state should recognise that 



