The Kentish Independent, Saturday 20 July, 1878.

Assault Outside The Station.

Mary Ann Boulton, 24, laundress, 59, Drury Lane, London was charged with disorderly conduct in William Street, Woolwich, and assaulting Sabrina Webster, a servant girl, also living in Drury Lane who said that she came down to Woolwich the previous afternoon with prisoner, having met her for the first time in the morning. About 11 o'clock a man met them and asked their names. She gave hers but prisoner refused to do so, and was taken up to the police station, when she gave her name and address. On getting outside prisoner swore at her and struck her in the face because she gave her name to the man.

Police Constable Gibson, 69, W.D.D., said that he was with inspector Cronk in New Road at 11 o'clock the previous night, when he saw the prisoner abusing two girls outside the "Royal Oak" public house. Prisoner and prosecutrix went towards Beresford Square, and he then went and stopped them, knowing that they had been in company with some soldiers. Prisoner refused to give her name, and he then told her she would have to go to the station. She did so, and then gave her name. He was witness to the assault, and locked her up, and prosecutrix charged her.

Mr. Balguy fined her 10s., or 7 days.
Gibson said said that prosecuterix had consented to go into the home at Wood Street.