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ISLE OF WIGHT PETTY SESSIONS.
COUNTY BENCH.—The magistrates present on Saturday were Captain Hamond, R. N. (chairman), Admiral Crozier, Captain Kerr, and Messrs. W. G. Shedden, White Popham, J. Coape, T. T. Fowke, T. M. Leacock, and Le Marchant Thomas.
NO PROSECUTOR.
—A young man named Edith Westwood, of Shrewsbury, a person of weak intellect, belonging to a respectable family, was brought up on a charge of obtaining money and goods under false pretences, at Ventnor. No prosecutor appeared and she was discharged.
— Hampshire Advertiser, Saturday 06 December 1862 source
“A young man” is an accurate transcription.
I know what they’re trying to say, but there’s no way I’d characterise Sarah as “of weak intellect”.