Emma Brasier, complainant, lodging-house keeper
of Atwell Road. Prisoner took apartments at her house on the
representation that she was employed at the Crown Theatre. After
prisoner had been in her house two or three days, Mrs. Brasier made
inquiries, and, finding the girl's story untrue, gave her into
custody. Prisoner told the magistrate that she would have worked had
she not had such bad health. Six weeks' hard labour.
CHAPTER XVII--INEFFICIENCY
I stopped a moment to listen to an argument on the Mile End Waste. It
was night-time, and they were all workmen of the better class. They had
surrounded one of their number, a pleasant-faced man of thirty, and were
giving it to him rather heatedly.
"But 'ow about this 'ere cheap immigration?" one of them demanded. "The
Jews of Whitechapel, say, a-cutting our throats right along?"
"You can't blame them," was the answer. "They're just like us, and
they've got to live. Don't blame the man who offers to work cheaper than
you and gets your job."
"But 'ow about the wife an' kiddies?" his interlocutor demanded.
"There you are," came the answer. "How about the wife and kiddies of the
man who works cheaper than you and gets your job? Eh? How about his
wife and kiddies? He's more interested in them than in yours, and he
can't see them starve.
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