Giggling Women Expelled from Jail

Two women in jail for intent to glorify waywardness were ordered home today because they couldn’t stop giggling. Rudolfina Albion, 23, and Beth Belly of the Marsh were ordered to comport themselves in their cell, or else get out.

Belly apologised for giggling but said it was a nervous reaction. She was meditating on the gravity of her offence, and that’s what triggered it. Albion, too, was nervous, and was ‘set off’ by Belly’s inability to control herself, she said.

But other prisoners were being affected, and it was thought best to let them go. Said governor Mary-Ann Fomalhault, “We could not afford to let these raucous rascals disturb the others. They were ruining the feel of the prison.”

Police are said to be disappointed, but not surprised.