A SHORT-LIVED ROMANCE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2072, 6 May 1907, Page 4

A SHORT-LIVED ROMANCE.

Ail assault case figured on Mr. H. W. Bishop's charge sheet this morning, says Christchurch Truth of April 25th. The defendant was an Australian rejoicing in the name of Loyal C March, and he was before the Court for assaulting the object of his affections in the person of Nellie Toonior, a girl of 18.

Put in the witness-box. Nellie stated that she lived with her widowed mother, and had been “keeping company” with March for about three months before lior- mother know anything about it. When the latter discovered tho attention March was paying lior daughter she objected, consequently witness told him he must desist. But tho Australian lover was much too infatuated to listen to any suggestion of the kind. Contrary to tho •conventional idea, he didn’t threaten to suicide on the parlor carpet or immolate himself on the kitchen range; ho threatened to end til3 girl instead. At any rate, according to the girl’s story, this was the prospect he held out if she would not continue to “walk out” with him. On Tuesday evening last, about seven o’clock, March called at the house to see if she would see him, and later, about 10.30, he met her and her mother coming home from the Opera House. Mrs. Toomer told him to go away, and he again threatened to make an end of the girl. A few minutes later lie called her and placed his hand on her shoulder and pulled her around the corner of the house. She called out to her mother, who at once hurried out.

At this stage Mr. Bishop evidently had heard enough. He asked Detective Chrystal if this was all the evidence he had of the assault, and receiving a reply in the. affirmative, ho dismissed tho case.