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- Reports found in Papers Past:
Sep 1862: Drunkeness
Feb 1863: Drunkeness (7th appearance within 3 months)
April 1863: Drunkeness
April 1864: Drunkeness
March 1865: Drunkeness
July 1865: Drunkeness
July 1867: Drunkeness
March 1868: Drunkeness
Jan 1873: Vagrancy ("a notorious character")
March 1876: Keeping a brothel, vagrancy
Nov 1876: Kept a horrible house in Lorne St (Annie)
Jun 1878: Drunkeness ("an old woman")
Dec 1878: Vagrancy/keeping a brothel ("Mrs Mahon" - 6 months imprisonment with hard labour)
Jan 1881: Drunkeness
June 1884: Drunkeness (alias King)
Dec 1884: Witness to stabbing
- Auckland Star, Volume VII, Issue 1890, 8 March 1876, Page 2
The Shields
Anne Shields and Sarah Anne Shields were charged under the Vagrancy Act with having no visible, lawful means of living.
Sergeant O'Connor deposed that the elder prisoner was the keeper of a brothel and her daughter was a girl of bad repute.
The old woman said she was designated a rogue and vagabond, and she begged to say that she was nothing of the sort; she was very different.
Detective Jeffrey drew, in his graphic style, a picture of the scenes enacted in the old woman's house.
Mr Cunningham opened the records of the Court and detailed from its pages many items against the old woman, which showed that she was familiar with the inside of Mount Eden gaol.
The daughter, a full grown young woman, burst into tears, and protested that she was as innocent as a young duck, and worked for her living.
Sergeant O'Connor, with much feeling spoke of the girl's character as questionable, she was vicious and drunken.
Mr. Cunningham, at the request of Mr. Broham again referred to the court blue-book, and found a number of convictions against prisoner.
The Bench sentenced the elder prisoner to six months' imprisonment, but the young one wished to call her husband in her favor.
Mr Broham expressed his surprise, as he was not aware that the prisoner was married.
Prisoner: Well I'm not married, but I have husband-like.
Three months' imprisonment with hard labour.
- November 1878
"Annie Shields...keeping a brothel in William-street, Chancery Lane."
"Your Worship, my name is not Shields; I'm Mrs Mahon, and I'm not guilty. - Detective Jeffrey had known prisoner for nine years as the keeper of houses of ill-fame."
Auckland Star, Volume IX, Issue 2689, 30 November 1878, Page 4
- Served 12 months' labour for vagrancy, starting Jun 5 1879.
Information in NZ Police Gazette gives her a native of Ireland, born 1829, height 4 10 3/4, complexion sallow, hair grey, eyes blue. 29 previous convictions.
- A Thomas Shields was born in 1849 to mother Anne and father John.
- Catherine Casey has information that Sarah Anne Cain's parents were called Anne Kearney and John Shiels. (corroborated my marriage certificate)
There is an Anne Kearney who died in 1891 aged 81. This would make in her thirties when Sarah Anne Cain was born, so could well be her mother. This also fits in with the dates the newspaper reports stop.
- Update, found her in Papers Past, she lived in Akaroa.
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d. 27 Nov 1865 (Age 56 years)