TAKING A SHREW.
Mrs Wood, a quarrelsome woman livinin Jersey City, has just been indicted as a "coiamon scold," a charge which haa not! been made for nearly 100 years. Mrs' Wood has been the heroine ef numerous j quarrels with her neighbours on account of dispntea aboct their children. She has scandalised tha whole neishbouraood by the free use of her tongue, aad has fxeqcentJy been arrested and fined '» disorderly conduct. Ths acthorities, nrw determined to make an exampie < her, have charged her with beicg a "common scold." The penalty for this offcuc?, stipulated cader an nnrepealed law of fiiei old colonial days, before the revolution, is' a ducking in the river, and it is saW rUati It is intended to carry oat this psnishja«nt if the woman be convicted. The weman has written 'to the jndee aokfas that If she Iβ to b* docked, the eenteuai «»»y be canted *at at oaee, as tte water* am fetttsc nMer wrtrj day.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 30, 4 February 1905, Page 13
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162TAKING A SHREW. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 30, 4 February 1905, Page 13
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