The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-06 00:00:00

THAMES.

AN EXPENSIVE DRUNKARD.—Margaret Macksey, a
dissipated-looking woman, aged 40, formerly servant and
housekeeper to a publican named Gray, who bequeathed to
her and her two sons a large income, was brought before
Mr. Woolrych charged with being drunk and disorderly
and assaulting Mr. F. H. Potter, who manages the business
of the Prince of Prussia public-house, in Cologne-street,
Stepney. _

ft appeared from the statement made by Mr. Pctter that
the prisoner had money left her to supply her with drink,
in addition to an income for ordinary purposes, and her
usual supply daily consisted of six quarterns of brandy, five
pints of ale, and six quarterns of rum. (Sensation.)
Mr. Woolrych—Why, then, she must bo always drunk.

Mr. Potter—No. If she don't exceed that quantity,
which is generally sent to her own dwelling at No. 1,
Cologne-street, she is very quiet, but if she exceeds that
she becomes outrageous. _ _

Mr. Woolrych—l should think she would become out-
rageous before she finished her daily allowance.
Mr. Potter said the prisoner came to his house in the
morning and was noisy.

Mr. Woolrych—Then I suppose she had finished her five
pints of ale, six quarterns of brandy, and several measures
of gin at a very early hour.
Mr. Potter said he did not know how that was, but she
came again in the evening and was intoxicated. She de-
manded liquor, and on his refusal to supply her with auy
she abused him, and made use of the most horrible language
towards him and his wife. It was so filthy he could not
repeat it. He endeavoured to eject the prisoner, and while
turning her out at the door she set a dog on him. The
animal bit his shin, which he would exhibit to the magi-
strate.

Mr. Woolrych said he had no curiosity to see Mr. Pot-
er's leg.

The prisoner, in defence, said she was a good customer
at the King of Prussia, and was insulted.

Mr. Woolrych said the prisoner must be a profitable cus-
tomer indeed with her six quarterns of brandy, five pints of
ale, and ho did not know how many quarterns of gin. Why,
the money she expended in strong drinks would keep half
a dozen poor families. There was no doubt the prisoner
was a violent, foul-mouthed, dissipated woman, and if she
was brought before him again under similar circumstances
he would punish her.
She was then discharged.

THE LADY BARRYMORB OF THE DISTRIM—AIice Eliza-
beth Collyer, a most turbulent and disorderly woman, about 45
years of age, who looked 70, and who has been in custody
200 times for being drunk and disorderly, and repeatedly
convicted, was brought before Mr. Woelrych charged with
attempting to defraud the Guardians of Mile-end Old-
town of a glass of port wine.

It was stated in evidence by Mr. Robert Gifford, relieving
officer, and Mr. Thomas Moffatt, porter at the Mile-end
workhouse, that the prisoner's husband was a most respect-
able man, a foreman cooper in the St. Katherine's Docks,
and many years separated from his incorrigibly drunken
wife. He allowed her 3s. per week through the parish
officers. The prisoner was sometimes in and sometimes
out of the workhouse, and when she was drunk she
was the terror of publicans and shopkeepers and an annoy-
ance to the inhabitants of the district—in fact, as noisy,
mischievous, and violent as the celebrated " Lady Barry-
more," of Bow-street and Drury-lane notoriety. It hap-
pened that the medical officer of Mile-end Old•town had
ordered a glass of port wine for a poor child afflicted with
the small-pox. A girl received the wino on Monday, and
yesterday a second glass of wine was put by in a bottle at
the porter's lodge. The prisoner by some means obtained
an order for another glass of wine from the medical officer,
and it was presented to the relieving officer. The
attempted imposition was detected, the wino was refused
and the prisoner was ordered about her business. She
refused to leave Mr. Gifford's °fan and made use of foul and
abusive language, and by her unseemly behaviour caused a
great many persons waiting for relief to be detained.
The prisoner said she had been nursing the child afflicted
with the smallpox, and that she went to the workhouse to
get a glass of wine for it, and intended to convey the wine
direct to the child. •

Mr. Gifford and Mr. Moffatt said the prisoner was such
an incorrigible drunkaid, they were satisfied 'she would
have drunk the wine directly if it had been given to her.
Mr. Woolrych said there was no doubt the prisoner was
a most disorderly woman, for she had been several times
before him in the course of the few months he had been a
magistrate. There was a doubt as to her intentions in the
present case, and he discharged her.

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