I took the following info from the GLAMORGAN-L@rootsweb.com mailing list. Just passing it along FYI only. Glenda > Subject: Naughty Cardiff ladies > This morning I went to do a look up in one of Cardiff's old papers> These are some of the beauties I found. > > Cardiff Times Seot 15th 1865 > At the Police court on Monday. > Margaret MAHONY a prostitute was sent to prison for 21 days for indecently > exposing her person in the street last night. > > Stealing from the person > Catherine WHELAN a Whitmore lane prostitute was charged with picking the > pocket of an Irish labourer named Thomas MURPHY in the Custom House Hotel. He > was robbed of about 15 shillings. The case was made out by evidence of the > prosecutor and the servant girl of the public house. She was comitted for > trial. > > Oct 6th 1865 > Watch comittee.Wednesday > Alderman ALEXANDER called attention to the scenes of indecency observable in > Bute Street every morning. Scenes of drunken and half drunk sailors and > prostitutes rolling about and using bad language. The police he said seem to > be either absent from the area or just take no notice. > He stated that in Swansea an order had been given to police to arrest all > girls on the street unbonneted. ( can you imagine it no hat on so you must > be a prostitute) > Mr Superntendent STOCKDALE said he would willingly obay such an order but it > must be given. > Alderman ALEXANDER mentioned a case where in Whitmore Lane an intoxicated > sailor was led to a brothel and in a few minutes robbed and thrown out into > the street with such force that he cut his head. A policeman on the street > took no notice of this incedent. > Mr ELLIOT complained that it was all but impossible to pass some corners in > the Bute Street and Whitmore lane areas without hearing bad language and > being accosted by prostitutes. He also said that they seem to disappear when > the police arrive on their beat. > The same day a motion was proposed by Alderman ALEXANDER and seconded by Mr > JENKINS directing the police to remove all persons obstructing corners of the > streets and to take into custody those who behaved indecently or > unsufficiently attired. > > Guess what. > The following day. > Headline PROSTITUE WITHOUT A BONNET. > Mary Ann MURPHY a prostitute was charged with conversing with a number of > seamen without any covering on her head. > The bench said there were great complaints of annoyance caused by such > characters as the defendant to respectable people along Bute Street. They > were determined to put down the nusiance as much as possible. > Mary Ann MURPHY was discharged this time but the bench warned her to be > careful in future. > And who was on the bench Alderman ALEXANDER he tells the police to clean up > the area then when they act on his words he discharges the case.(what's new) > > Of course the Editors summary of the week gives the powers that be a good > knocking saying that the police were hard presed to do the job so stop > knocking them. > > Oh and on the same day. > Caroline DALTON was charged with disorderly conduct and sentenced to 7 days > in prison. > > I wonder did Alderman ALEXANDER have a soft spot for Mary Ann MURHY. > > More tomorrow > Phil the Cardiff mongrel