Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a Punch and Judy man.

1860		London Dly News 27 Mar. 6/4: The plot turns upon the difficulties of one Swatchel [...] the proprietor of a punch-and-Judy show.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.
1887		W.E. Henley ‘Villon’s Good-Night’ in Farmer Musa Pedestris (1896) 174: You bleeding bonnets, pugs, and subs, / You swatchel-coves that pitch and slam.
1906		Sporting Times 24 Feb. 2/4: Weird and strange sounds [...] filled the air [...] like the ‘swatchel-cove’s’ [...] opening flourish on the Pan pipes.