Eliza Read, a respectably dressed woman, wife of the landlord of the Ipswich Arms, Lower Brook Street, was charged with being drunk and disorderly. Policeman Fiske said that he heard a great row at 4am coming from outside the Ipswich Arm’s, he found Mrs read sitting on her doorstep very drunk, two other officers stated that they had seen her at 2am and had seen she was very drunk. Her defence lawyer pointed out that as she was drunk on her doorstep she was not in fact in the public street and therefore the magistrates did not have the power to convict. The case was dismissed, but the Chairman expressed an opinion that the house was conducted disgracefully, and if a charge of drunkenness were brought against the defendant it would be differently dealt with. Ipswich Journal, Feb 1870**