Violent vixens
On 5 February 1861, Matilda Anderson was tried at the General Sessions in Melbourne for wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm. Anderson had got into a fight with another woman, Mary Smith, at a brothel in Lonsdale Street. The fight culminated in Anderson throwing Smith down the stairs, and smashing a glass tumbler into her forehead. Anderson plead guilty to common assault, and was released upon entering recognizances of £100.
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