RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. This Day.
(Before J. C. Crawford, Esq., R.M.) A BILIOUS HEADACHE. Mary Pimble was charged with having been drunk and incapable. She said that the young man who arrested her had made a great mistake. She had a bad bilious headache, and all the beer she had drank during the day would not intoxicate a kitten. The constable said he found defendant lying helplessly drunk on the footpath. Defendant said it was the bilious headache which overcame her. In fact, as his Worship must know, those bilious headaches made people very silly. Sergeant Monaghan said that this was the third bilious headache that defendant had had since June last, and she was fined 20s, or in default 48 hours' imprisonment.
Taken from the Evening Post, Wellington, New Zealand May 1876.
This was not the first or last time that Mary would appear before the Magistrates!
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