The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-10 00:00:00

THAMES.

THE INDEPENDENT WIDOW LADY.—Elizabeth Hine, a
very portly widow, fat, fair, and forty, who owned to
37 years of age, and was very expensively and showily
dressed, and whose broad green silk bonnet ribbons hung
loosely over her shoulders, was brought before Mr. Paget,
charged with being drunk and disorderly.
Christopher Ginn, a police-constable, No. 212 K, said
the prisoner was intoxicated and making a disturbance in
the Mile-end-road, and her gesticulations and her denun-
ciations of " that man, that villain, that perjured wretch,"
brought a great mob of disorderly persons about her. She
broke a pane of glass in a tradesman's window, and said
that was how she would like to serve the owner of the
shop. He wished her to go away, and she would not, and
he took her into custody. She was drunk and noisy six
weeks ago. She used disgraceful language.
The Prisoner—l protest most indignantly and empha-
tically against this man's statement. I was not drunk
people were all more or less intoxicateed. (A laugh. I
mean the rabble, the dross, the musty superfluity.
Mr. Paget—What disgraceful language did she use?
Ginn—She said she would break the tradesman's win-
dow, and that she had supported him at the expense of
her own honour and dignity.
The Prisoner—l did not say such a thing. I could not
have said it because it is not true, and I could not have
given utterance to what was not true. He had no right to
take me and consign me to a filthy cell. lam a lady, and
do not belong to the lowly herd. (Laughter.)
Mr. Paget—l am afraid your conduct was not very lady-
like. You caused a disorderly mob to assemble, Mrs.
Hine.

The Prisoner—A parcel of children, sir.
Mr. Paget—What are you ?
The Prisoner—A widow lady of independent means,
living on my income.

Inspector Griffin of the K division—That is so, your
worship. Her address is No. 24, Regent-street, Stepney.
Ginn here said there had been frequent complaints of
the " lady" getting drunk and being noisy and quarrelsome
in the Mile-end-road.

The Prisoner—lt is not true. I have not been there for
months.

Mr. Paget—You were drunk this time.

The Prisoner—That shall not occur again.
Mr. Paget—You must pay 20s. for being drunk and dis-
orderly or be imprisoned for seven days.
The prisoner offered her I 0 U to the gaoler for the
amount of the fine which he refused to accept, and she
then appealed to a little smartly-dressed young man, who
said, " I will pay the fine on condition that you keep your
promise to the magistrate.

The Prisoner (sneeringly)—l have made a promise, cer-
tainly—what more, sir.

The fine was paid by the smart young man, and the
"widow lady of independent means," who has frequently
indulged in copious libations, left the court with him.
MURDEROUS ASSAULT.—WiIIiam Smith, an Irish la-
bourer, was charged with committing a violent assault on
Catherine Apearn, of No. 1, Sun-court, St. George-in-the-
East.

The complainant, who was as pale as a spectre and whose
head was enveloped in surgical bandages, had a quarrel
with the prisoner in the Duke of York public-house, High-
street, Shadwell. He annoyed her very much. He seized
hold of her arm, and then both left the house. The woman
came in again staggering and bleeding from a wound on
the head. He followed her, and was turned out by the
landlord. While the prisoner was in the street, he acted
most outrageously and pulled his coat off. He then struck
the woman and knocked her down. She fell on her head
and a severe wound was inflicted, from which she ,bled
copiously. The only provocation given by the woman
was that, when the prisoner made a proposal to her
to go home with him, she said, "Go home
to the woman you live with." In addition
to the wound inflicted by the fall on the pavement she had
been cut on the head with a sharpinstrument. The wounds
were of a dangerous character.

Edward Dillon, police sergeant, 19 K, said he appre-
hended the prisoner at 51, Brook-street, Ratcliff. There
was blood on his face, shirt, and clothes. Ito told the pri-
soner the charge, and said, "I understand a knife was
used." The prisoner used some imprecations, said he had
only struck the woman with his fists, and that he would
murder her yet before he had done with her.

The prisoner was remanded for a week, and the woman,
who was in a weakly condition, was taken back to Ratcliff
workhouse, where she had been under the medical care of
the surgeon of the union.

And then he drew a dial from his poke,
And looking on it with lack lustre eye,
Says very wisely, ' It is ten o'clock :
' Thus we may see,' quoth he, ' how the world wags.'"
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