PROSTITUTE PROPAGATING.

NZ Truth, Issue 92, 23 March 1907, Page 6

PROSTITUTE PROPAGATING.

Police Practices.

The S.M.s m various centres have latterly been revelling iri field days expressly for polishing off social derelicts, male and female, under the ivag. The plan has been to scour the l.town on occasions, and, when sufficient unsavoury souls have heen drawn 'm by the John's dragnet, to stand: !> em up up one after another to be knocked down <by the Beaks lor terms ,of incarceration " varying from three to as much as eighteen months. Probably most of the poor V devils- so served are just as well, or better, oft m gaol as otit although really the sentencing of a fellow-creature cursed with dipsomania to imprisonment is an inhuman blunder m the curriculum of modern law-dispensing. Another blot ,on the escutcheon of modernity is that the common pros-, titute or the confirmed : drunkard should be able, these times, to sink to such depths of degradation as to amenable to such heavy sentences under the vag. as some Magistrates have, m their wisdom, lately ladled out to them. It is surprising that m these days of vaunted higher education imd .-, illimitable wealth any poor wretch should be so buffeted about by ill-fortune- as to earn- the oblique of being a rogue and vagabond at all. Yet it isn't so surprising, after all, if the methods alleged to have been adopted by a dunderhead Jo-Inn Duron- of the Christ-churf-h police force are correct as .given to our correspondent m the i^aihedral City. A perusal of the facts of this case shows up the policeman implicated as a pestiferous pvamplc of the persecuting peeler, *,v!jo. if h3 adopts such tactics often, must, by his imbecility, add materially io the ranks of Tadias de pave v.-ho nwv find themselves hauled up after a few short years to be frowt Ivd on by tlu- Beaks as more awfui examples to he douched with long s!r-tches of prison for their sins.

There is m Christchurch a young woman who was until recently employed m Murphy's laundry! The girl belongs to a family v/hose rc-co'-d is so'.newhat iiiurkv, which is ratlisr. her misfortune- than her fault. An plrler sister of hers was sentenced. to eighteen months' hard as a rogue and vagabond two weeks ago, which is certainly purely misfortunatc for and emphatically not the fault of the laumlrvin" sifter. Even the girl m question herself was convicted, two years ngo, of some vcn r trivial offence, and mesumabiv that was her fault. But flic's lived that down, and over since has done her best (under the discouraging circumstances of poswssln.fr roily relatives m plenty, and a, wild disposition by nature) to keep to the straight path. And she succeeded admirably, working witty thoss who mi^ht have led her astray. ! A couple of weeks ago tlie girl's #ltt«Hfr4tt# WM ill .ftttft the fiirl

stayed from:, work -to nurse her. Just at this time a big booby of abofaby suddenly evinced a great desire to ascertain minute particulars, as to the girl's doings. Whether this police Paul Pry was acting under instructions or on his own initiative is not known. Anyhow, whilst the girl was away from work nursing her sister thp' pimp peeler pushed into the laundry and made all sorts of most malicious inquiries of her employer. The result of his incursion is easily surmised. When the girl returned to work- after five days' nursing she was told she would not be wanted again. She- had been told to come back as soon as she could ; yet, m reply to her request for a reason for her discharge she was simply told that another girl had been put into her position. Then she heard of the pimp policeman's visit and she wisely sought no further for a reason for being /riven the noble order of the sack. If a $irl like thus one, with a sister, in gaol as a rogue* and ; • vagabond, and other influences for easily following the beautifully broad path to perdition, felt, after the experience related, that it was. useless to try to play ; the game of life according to Society's laws, who could be surprised? Luckily the girl m question easily obtained work elsewhere, and will work on m the hopes that the blasted booby of a bobby who caused her dismissal from Murphy's laundry will allow her to remain in' peace. If he repeats his recent performance of houndine this girl out of another billet by his senseless snorting, this paper will see fit to make a number of strident utterances anent his crawling, creeping, clumsy, capers that, will give htoi fits as blue as King Ned's .uniform he has already, proved himself unfitted to wear.