Shocking Depravity
At the Auckland Police Court last • ■ week Mary Ann Fowler* a girl of IS, '■ was charged with having no visible • lawful means. — Prisoner, wno appeared in a very dirty state, said she : lived-- with, •■■•hear-- 1 parents;— Sergeant Pratt called evidence. — Detective -Hughes deposed that the girl was leading an abandoned life. She was in the habit of going about with a band of larrikins playing the tambourine, and smoking opium with a number of Chinamen, with whom she associated. She was in a deplorable state: — Sergeant E. Smith of the Education -Department, deposed that the girl was formerly in St. Mary's SchooL He had visited a cabin in the lane of Upper Queen street— it could not be called a house. He found the father, mother, and the girl with a
dirty, rough-coated dog, rolled up in
- ragg on the floor. • They were only 2 1 -rooms to the miserable dwelling, 12 x 14, each. He had nerer, -in all his experience either- here or in London, witnessed such a scene of physical degradation . — On the ■ application of ■'■■"-'■ Sergeant Pratt, the ease was remanded ■••• fora week.
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 36, 3 September 1885, Page 3
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189Shocking Depravity Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 36, 3 September 1885, Page 3
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