RESIDENT MAGISTRATE COURT

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 409, 21 November 1868, Page 4

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE COURT

Friday, Nov. 21. (Before J. G-iles, Esq., K. M.) Ann Connolly was charged with being a common prostitute, and with indecent conduct in the streets. Detective Lambert described how he had seen the prisoner, in the company of a young girl named Margaret Gardiner, invite a drunken man to her house in Molesworth street, and how he heard the man exclaim, when inside her house, " You must give me back my money," upon which the prisoner pushed the man out of the house. She was then arrested, but escaped into her house until a constable was brought. Magaret Gardiner, an evidently unwilling witness, said that the defendant had sent for her in the evening, had taken her into the company of the man referred to, and told her to " get as much money out of him as she could." The prisoner said she was " a lone woman, keeping company with no one, and with God only over her." She had been " keeping company," but she had" resigned" the relationship. The Magistrate said there could b? but one opiuion as to the character of the prisoner, but it would be a straining of the particular clause of the Vagrant Act under which the charge was brought to convict the defendant under it, and the case must be dismissed.