An Illustrated Historical Miscellany , which the author has graciously shared with readers of the Victorian Web . The following is a selection of various court reports relating to women defendants in the mid-century, taken from the local papers.
Reports are verbatim unless otherwise notated.
The prisoner stated that she never came to Hastings until the previous Wednesday, but had lived in Ninfield parish for many years, and was well-known to Dr. Watts of Battle. Witness did not have her fortune told, and had not been visited by the prisoner before. The witness's sister corroborated the above. She was a stranger to this part of the country, her native place being Gravesend, in Kent. Could not tell fortunes, or else she could have told her own.