Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1894-05-25 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

ACTING THE O. Sornma."—The Garetsng and the Fylde Guardians are at present concerned respecting the doings of a Jewess from Kirkham, named Rebecca Emanuel. She wail recently discovered in an exhausted condition, nn. conscious it is said, on the sands at Harnbleton. She was removed to Kirkham, and Garstang Union, having claimed the cost incurred in that proceeding. the matter came before the Fylde guardians on Wednesday. The Fylde Union were , advised net to pay the money, as she had no settlement in that Union. The relief officer wan called, and stated that the woman was an imposter. She was in the habit of vieiting sick people and the charitably disposed, and praying with them. The Chairman thought that the woman'e illness at Garetang was only brought on to get an easy ride home. The Garstang authorities should have taken her to the workhouse; she would soon have got better—lt was stated that when the woman left the town, ehe threatened that she was going to commit suicide. The woman and child had been found. at Burnley. It was also stated that the husband of the woman had a "peculiar sickness," and could not work. This was also the case at the previous town be was in. -- It was decided not to pay the amount claimed by the Garstaug Union. The Garstang Guardians had s say in the matter on Thursday. The Clerk reported that he had ! received from the Fylde authorities a letter alleging that the pauper had been improperly removed, and asking the committee to inform how I they could legally pay the expenses. He believed he had seen that the woman had been taken up for being drunk and disorderly. She was likely acting the old soldier or the old soldier's wife at Hambleton.—The Chairman No doubt she was. I —The Clerk remarked that she was taken over • the boundary. He had written the Fylde Guardians informing them that they may have ' misapprehended the case or he may not have fully explained it. The Guardian of Hambleton," the reply continued, "when he deeired you to be written to, informed me this woman was found in an exhausted condition on the sands, and she was taken to the Shovels Inn. Dr. Day was sent for and in the meantime everything was done that the kind-hearted innkeeper and his wife could do for the poor body apparently dying. It was the poor woman's request and not the doctor's advise that the °veneers bad her sent home. If the poor woman had been taken when she was first neon, a little over Shard bridge, she would have been in your union." The Clerk concluded his letter with a reminder that the woman belonged to the Fvlde union, and an ssaurance that there was no fear of the auditor surcharging them under the circumstances. Questioned by the chairman, he remarked that the Kirkham Union did not exactly refuse to pay the expenses.—A member said the woman was regularly on the road drunk. She acted the old soldier." and if she came acmes any one who was likely to give her anything, she would throw herself down on she road side, and pretend to go in a fit—Mr. Tomlinson believed a woman of her character could even deceive an overseer or a doctor.--The matter then dropped.