endacott, v. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

endacott v.

also cott

[a Constable Endacott who, in 1887, was tried and acquitted for the arrest on these grounds of a respectable dressmaker; the term, poss. coined by Annie Besant (1847–1933), was abbr. to cott]

to arrest on false pretences, spec. those of being a prostitute.

1891		Leeds Times 4 July 4/5: ANOTHER CASS CASE. Another young woman has been ‘Endacotted,’ this time at Aldershot. Compared with this one the Cass case sinks into absolute insignificance.
1909		(ref. to 1887) in J. Ware Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era 123/1: Endacotted (Socialist, 1887) Illegally arrested [...] After a time the term was reduced to ‘cotted’.