KLEIN'S KID.

NZ Truth, Issue 92, 23 March 1907, Page 3

KLEIN'S KID.

— ■» . DUPER AND DESERTER SENT TO GAOL. A Pole and His Temporary Wives. When any individual props up the birth-rate of illegitimates he has to take the consequences, and if he runs away and, leaves, y little thong behind him, and. is*ca,ygfrj}.lby' the crUel, "lpng-stretchin^ arm of the law, | it is hopeUess for foam to siqtueal and squirm, and say he won!t do it again. The man who leaves a woman and their illegitimate or legitimate olive branch m the lurch is capable of doing any dirty, sneaking action, and consequently anybody that lias anything to do with the Law hasn't much time for him, and fixes him up quick and lively when the opportunity is given. One, William Klein, who was fixed up for about the ' eighth time at the S.M.'s' Couirt on Thursday morning, is one shining example' of a soulless, skedaddling skunk. Years. aj?o, Klein, who is a Russian or Polish Jew, ran m conjunction with a woman he kept as his wife, a pretty strong Joint of a hash-house somewhere m Cui>a-?fcreet, . Wellington, and. having becoo-e. the father of a bouncing boy he lighted off, but was brought back, adjudged the kid's papa, and ordered to pay seven and six a week—the price generally fixed on as the kid's cost till the kid is caoable of earning a crust for itself. Klein soon proved himself one of the most artful dodgers of maintenance-paying papas that, a Magistrate's Court ever came across, and for the paste four, or five yen's "Klein has feeen backing and filling and refusing to pay up till.he was regarded as a .damned nuisance and a had egr. and the Court accordingly lost all patience with him, and threatened him with all sorts of PAINS AND,PENALTIES, if he did not pay up and smile and be happy. Ho would not pay, however, and a few months ap-o, having allowed his installments to fall into shocking disrepair and arrears a warrant was issued for his arrest, , and it was only executed the other day, when he was found somewhere m a Wairarapa town, where he had taken unto himself another temporary Mrs. Klein, who had better be careful about filling cradles unless she wishes, .to be treated as the first acting Mrs. Klein was. When he was brought before Dr. McArthur, S.M., on Thursday morning;, Klein tried on the old old story of times being hard, but as the beak has wasted leniency and patience on the Pole m the past, he opened out on him. and told him that he was just about as big a dodger as the Court Lnew of, and wound up by sending Ih3 deserter and bilker to gaol for fourteen days. And bow did the Pole perform. He blutybed like a kid robbed of candy. He tiowled and whined and buried his face m his\ arms, and even disturbed the Court with his wee,'\s ; but #c weeps availed not. While Bill hcrwled pnd wept bitterly m an ante-rcom, Ihe Court smiled and looked hapnv m having fixed up a dirty dog of a deserter.