The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-22 00:00:00

THAMES.

JUST PUNISHMENT OF DISORDERLY WOMEN.-31r. Paget
has come to the determination of punishing with great
severity disorderly and violent women of infamous cha-
racter, whose conduct is in defiance of all public morality
and decency. He has visited with severity many female
ruffians with nothing of women about them, but the sex
who have committed violent assaults on each other, and
upon persons with whom they came in contact, ac-
companying their outrages with blasphemous and
indecent language and threats, hereby the whole of
the offenders have been taken in Ratcliff-highway,
Shadwell, and Tiger-bay, St. George-in-the-East.
Jane Smith was charged with being drunk, disorderly,
and assaulting Margaret Sheppard in Shadwell. Mr.
Paget sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned for two
months and kept to hard labour, and said although the as-
sault was but a slight one, ho was under the necessity of
punishing severely disorderly women for injuring each
other and injuring others; and if two months would not
suffice, he would visit disorders of this kind with still
greater severity. The next two women who appeared be-
fore him were Anne Gilligan and Mary Ann Mulcahy,
who have given snore trouble to the police, the magis-
trates, and the officers of this court than any other two
women in the district. Gilligan is a dreadful character,
and though only only 33 years of age, is called the " old
woman," and she looks like a woman of seventy. A
very intelligent police-sergoant named Dillon, No. 19
said she was one of the most desperate and abandoned
characters in the district. She had been convicted of felony
and underwent throe years' penal servitude. Her real
name was Hall, and she cohabited with a man named Gilli-
gan, a thief, who was transported. She had been con-
cerned in numerous outrages and robberies, the plunder-
ing of sailors, and ill-usage of people in the notorious dens
iu Illuegate-fields, Kati The convictions against her
were numerous. Mrs. Mulcahy, who had a surgical
plaister on her face, has been repeatedly convicted of as-
saults on the wretched creatures who live in the horrible
houses belonging to her and her husband in Bluegato-
fields, Angel-gardens, and other places. She was sent
to prison for a month for cutting a man's head
open with a bottle, and also convicted for assaults on the
police. Sergeant Dillon said the mischief done by the
two women was enormous, and they were a nuisance to
society. It was proved that Gilligan assaulted Mrs. Mul-
cahy in the White Fox public-house, Shadwell, and Mrs.
Mulcahy wont to Gilligan's house in the evening and beat
her. The assaults were accompanied by fearful scenes of
violence and disorder.
Gilligan said she was a tenant of Mrs. Mulcahy's, who
had 14 brothels.
Mrs. Mulcahy— I have 1G in this end of the town and
as many in the west.
Mr. Paget, having sternly reproved the prisoners, sen-
tenced them each to two months' imprisonment and hard
labour, and said if they wore brought before him again
under similar circumstances he would order a much longer
imprisonment or he would send them to tho sessions.
Mrs. Mulcahy, who has become rich by her nefarious
trade, said she could pay a fine, and implored of the
magistrate to inflict one, and not send her to prison. She
could pay £lO, or £2O, or £5O.
Mr. Paget—No, I will not allow you to escape on pay-
ment of a fine. You will go to prison.