Ellen Callaghan

by **Karen** Thu 26 May 2011 - 13:17

Ellen Callaghan was a prostitute who testified at the inquest of Frances Coles in 1891. She would have been approximately 21 years of age:

QUARRELSOME WOMEN.

"More than half the time of this court is taken up by rows between women," said Mr. Waddy, the magistrate, at Tower Bridge Police Court yesterday, when Ellen Callaghan, 50, was charged with causing bodily harm to Alice Macauley.
Macauley said Callaghan stabbed her in the face with a fork when she went to "ask for an explanation" after Callaghan had called her names.
Mr. Waddy: You mean that you went to have a row.
A constable said that when he went to arrest Callaghan she jumped 26ft. from a window and broke both ankles.
Mr. Waddy dismissed the charge.

Source: The Daily Mail, Thursday October 7, 1920, Page 5