Person:James Caufield (1)

On at least one occasion Bridget and her husband were involved in an event ful night out.

The results are described in the Uxbridge Journal dated June 24, 1875.

(provided by the Uxbridge Scott Historical Museum - Allan McGillivray)

"There were three of them: James Caufield, his wife and an able bodied bos om friend, Mrs. Michael Moran, all hailing from the township. It was on W ednesday evening. James was in the Mansion House kitchen, and was fulmina ting a general ruction among the culinary arrangements. Captain Tuck w as called in and succeeded by dint of his characteristic persuasivene ss in inducing the bibulous James to turn his back on the minions of the k itchen and manifest his presence in the bar-room. James' manifestatio ns of his visibility in the bar-room were, however, of such pugilistic nat ure that he had to be peremptorily thrown out into the street, whe re he at once commenced a fistic encounter with a bystander. The two cons tables now came to the rescue, as also did Mrs. Caufield and Mrs. Micha el Moran. James made desperate efforts at resistance, but was finally han dcuffed, and was being dragged off to the corporation boarding house, t he two women before named trying to pelt the constables with stones and cu rsing and swearing, and yelling like Arraphoe(sic) Indians. Caufield was s uccessfully jugged. The constables thought it advisable to leave him hand cuffed for a few minutes after he was placed in the pen, but on returni ng to remove the handcuffs it was found that he had broken one of them, a nd one of his hands were(sic) loose. He was tried before the Reeve next m orning and relieved of 9 dollars: being four dollars fine, three dollars c osts, and two dollars for breaking the handcuffs."