Liverpool Telegraph - Wednesday 07 June 1837
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A SOLDIER'S WIFE.—Mrs. Crawley, a native of the Emerald Isle, with as saucy a tongue and as many bruises upon her as would have graced a frequenter of Donnybrook Fair, was yesterday brought to the police office, for kicking up a riot, while in a drunken state, at the door of the magistrates' room, on the previous day. Mrs. Crawley was indignant at the charge, and said, "it was altogither wrong, for the jontleman in the blue coat had kilt her and murthered her intirely, till she fairly thought she should never have the life in her again." She then displayed a number of bruises upon her arms and neck ; but the police said she came to the office with these marks upon her. "Och ! and is it that ye mane ?" said Mrs. Crawley; "plase your Worshup, my husband has sarved his king and country in Enniskillen Dragoons, and I've been 25 years a rale soldier's wife, and the mother of thirteen childer, and bekase I gets a drap o' the cratur, sure, am I to be murthered over and over agin for nothing ?" The husband was ordered to be sent for, on whose arrival the soldier's wife was to be discharged.
