THE POLICE COURT

Auckland Star, Volume III, Issue 629, 17 January 1872, Page 2

THE POLICE COURT

To the Editor of the Evening Stab. Sin, —The unfortunate women that are continuaPy dragged before Mr Beckham to receive the benefit of Jr's magniloquence and oratorical display would almost entitle that gentlemen to the privilege of being regarded as the " monitor of the demi monde." Ido not wiah to appear to advoci.e the cause of these fal'en women, but the heart of every Englishman must be susceptible to some sense of feeling, to a touch of sympathy to one who, prior to her fall, could claim the distinction of being one of the " noblest gifts of God," Is it not possible that pity and compas-ion alone to the wretched position of a fellow creature prompted the expression of sympathy on the part of Mr Broham, and induced him to display an anxiety to aid in the reformation of a hapless girl; or must we follow in the wake of Mr Beckham, and attribute sinister motives to every attempt that is made to save these unfortunates from their vicious habits, to arrest their steps ere they plunge into the abyss of ruin to which they are gradually drifting. For my own part, I can hardly believe that a magistrate on the bench would so far forget himself as to attempt to stigmatise the private character of an officer of the Court, more especially when that officer's name stands " seen? peur el sans raproohe." I should prefer to regard the insinuation and unnecessary criticism of Mr Beckham as a mere attempt to be facetious on his part, or the reporter in the Cross might have misquoted the words of the magistrate. Yours, &c, A Squeak feoai the Town Hall Mouse,