ABSTRACT
In the fall of 1893, pretty Edith Marshall decided to plant a kiss on a ‘New York copper’ who was approaching her because she was ‘full enough’ – that is, having too much of a good time under the influence of alcohol. She screamed with delight when he approached her, kissed his ‘unwilling lips’, hugged him and would not let him go. The officer, pictured and identified in the sensationalist tabloid the National Police Gazette as ‘Policeman Hulse’, was forced to arrest her. After a lecture in the Jefferson Market Court, she was discharged – a fortunate outcome for Miss Marshall because misbehaving women of the time were often thrown in jail by overzealous police.
