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Rh Dido Morgan, who was stationed as a picket further down the street, came rushing up to the struggling, pulling, crying girls, hoping to pacify them.

Almost instantly foreman Flint arrived, accompanied by an officer. Pointing out Dido, with a diabolical grin he told the officer to arrest her. The now frightened girls fell back while the officer dragged Dido away, despite her protests.

That night she spent in the station-house, and in the morning she was taken to the Essex Market Court, where the Judge, listening to the policeman's highly imaginative story, asked her what she had to say, and though she endeavored to tell the truth, hustled her off with "ten days or ten dollars."

Being penniless she was sent to the Island, where she spent the most miserable ten days of her life.