MET AT THE SEASIDE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8341, 30 January 1913, Page 11

MET AT THE SEASIDE

XAUKS KEPT SECRET IN WUITB SLAVE TEA EDO CUAKGE.

GIRL'S SAD STORY

In tile interests of the vouug womnS who is aiifgcd to have been the victim oi ihe pi no names were disclosed ai immijcth Rohce Court when a man kva* cnaiged on a warrant with procuring Au* woman in question. Mr KuigiuvJdes.sis Wontnor and Sons) prosecuted on m-nulf of the Couimi.-smner of Police, and ;ue case was in cnargo of Detective ln-.-pecror Curry, the head of tiwy nowiyiormed department at New' Scotland laid, which is charged with tho duty of dealing with the wane slave trnthc. 'The young woman stepped into tho witness "box and was handed a piece of paper. Air Knight: Is that your present name ami ad:irt->s and also your lormer name and adires>? Acs. In July of this yeai tuo witness, evidently a woman oi good c-uucaLion, said she was at the *eaHde at tuc pia-co written on the slip paper produced. She was spending a holiday there, and stayed with irieuds. .Hie met tne prisoner on tho pier. A Hying machine was passing overhead, and they got into conversation. Ho asked hoi to Moot him again tho same night, and

ode did so. Sue met him on subsequent occasions. He asked her to marry bun, and she consented. Ho said his father lived in buirey. and that ho (prisoner* had made himself a lot of money in Yukon, and had helped to pay off a mortgage on his father's property. Air Knight: Did he say how much tho mortgage was? Witness; 1 'think it waa U'XXXj. I am not quite sure. Ho said his lather allowed him 10s pe v week. The prisoner and herself were married ou August 3Gth (continued the witness), they left the seaside three days after iho marriage, and camo to an address inLondon. The prisoner took her round die West End and pointed out certain women. At a later date the prisoner suggested that she should savo the situation for the time being by going upon die streets. The prisoner said his father had cut him off for marrying her.

At the end of throe weeks they were both without money. She cried when ho made the suggestion that she should go upon to streets, and prisoner seemed very much grieved to think that she should hove to save the situation in that way. For three weeks she walked the Strand, and gave money to the prisoner. He gave her the addresses of places to which sho could take men. The prisoner left he- about a month ago. He sent her several letters. In some of them there were small suras—sometimes 3d, sometimes Gd, and once Is. The amount came to 3s altogether. At that timo sho was lying ill in bed. Mr Knight: tip to the time that your husband asked you to. go on the streets had you led a docent, clean life? Vos. Upon eliciting from the. magistrate that tho case was one for committal, the prisoner said lie would not cross-examine the witness.

Tlie further hearing was adjourned.