A PAIR OF BEAUTIES.

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

A PAIR OF BEAUTIES.

It is really marvellous the number of young ■ fello\\*s . who are charged with being ( ;'no class" m Christchurch. They are lazy louts for the most class ami don't appear to want' to work, but live on their parents and don't feel inclined to graft at all unless they are made to. And the only way to make them is to force them to. graft for the public, good m gaol. Two. young men of this sort were before the Christchurch Police Court last week— nerhaps two young blackguards would be the a correct termbut at anyrate they are now "jugging" it at Lyttelton for a oouple of months. There were a couple- of charges against these bright brutes, one of assaulting and robbing one Edward Ryan, of a fiver, and; the other of being idle and disorderly persoj^ who habitually consorted with thieves and prostitutes, and with, other ciiar-acters who belong to the family of Mud. Well, of course, [they weren't guilty m their own minds, but they had to satisfy the beak on that point. Ryan was one of those poor devils , from the country ; not • '-popr, .;■ m cash bui? poor, m experience, and he was a ; stranger and they took Mm m. Or, at least, they bashed " Mm iii', ; and that was a,ll about it. There were a number -of ■■ men drinking m the usual manner, and Irishman Ryan depended upon the honesty of his pals. He broke an eighteen >q,uid ohecme and did some shopping, ,as -he • wanted a new tie and a pair of socks and you know what Christchurch people charge for such necessaries as those when they lanow that the applicant is on the dr<unk, and- has blue lizards m bis feet, and elephants singing symphonies m his ears and tearful tarts tattering his pockete wlien they get a sihow, and eventually everything m the allo'tonent was all weeds. But Ryan: 1 fell m. \.:They took Mm to the back of the Wellington Hotel, and he alleged that Parker held him while Hancock, and a colored man named Digges through him. They only got a fiver out of him, but that represented nearly all the .money he had left. There was ' a fourth man connected with the concern, but nobody could locate him-, or identify him. So it' was that the pair were then objurgated wit-h' a charge of being the consorts of prostitutes. Years ago Kings used to be that way, and some of 'em are now, but that does not affect the case. The consorts .of the free and easy. female m Ohristchurch get a bad time,. f and so should all blasted bludgers of blastiferous repute who,: make ..one bleed -for the blessed women of their country, who are so hounded and hunted and harassed as to have really lost all their moral fibre as to be condemned to an immoral 'death of deleterious disease incomnaiible with all the surroundings of sanctit-"- and the holiness of liicr-h -'.hope m the hereafter. Well,, these t two bally, blooming bludgers, who are too well' known m this city ' of Exhibition and other evils, and who had no excuse worth offcrinc went up without any consideration. It seems a strange tiling that there should bo so many lyouths 'un for what is called the vag., and who are loafing on prostitutes and their mothers at the same time. 'lt is absolutely scandalous and a disgrace. : to the citvi .-:.•