A DEPRAVED WRETCH.

NZ Truth, Issue 93, 30 March 1907, Page 6

A DEPRAVED WRETCH.

A depraved woman named Margaret Kosanowski has just' been sent to Lyttelton gaol for a little " sixer " for continuing m her evil, vicious, and most vile courses. Quite a young woman, too, and had she been brought b&fore a beak, the despicable creature would have received quite double the sentence. She has been married for some years, but has been degraded through grog, and her husband is as bad as she is m that respect. He-works for a few days, and then goes on tho bally bust .for a month. The consequence is that the woman is a prostitute, and her beautiful beast of a husband leaves her for stretches at a time. He is no class, and has actually brought men. to his low-down .den of a house for unspeakable purposes— lovers for . his dirty, diseased wife. And on one occasion he threatened "*to shoot her, because she wouldn't accept as a., temporary lover some soddened brute that he had taken home to her. And the money obtained by his wife's prostitution all went m beer. She used to rotate round different brothels at the whim

of her husband, and was generally found m a state of beastly intoxication bythe police when they received complaints about these beastly low dens of infamy. She was repeatedly found entertaining men m one room, and her husband has been m another room of the house m a sodden, sottish state, dead to the world. In fact the life of this concupiscent, callous couple, was one round of sin, so long as the beans lasted, and their children, whom they should have catfed for, are m one of the Industrial Schools, kept at Government expense. It was absolutely imperative that the police should take them from their unnatural parents. Well, the woman was given a chance by Magistrate Day recently, on the understanding thafc'she was to go to Little Eiver where she alleged her husband was. But ahe kept haunting the streets arid the beer shops, and got worse than" ever. On Sunday last she provided a most disgusting spectacle m. the main streets. Constable McClinchy, of St. Albans, found her lying m a paddock out his way. She was anyhow, and a dog was lying alongside her. The constable shifted her out of that, and got her on to the public road, and he then saw that the woman was badly drunk, so there was nothing for it but to cart her to the town lockup. There m no accommodation at the St. Albans show at all, so he had perforce to take her all the way to town— a very long walk, and the sight of a man walking m. front with the constable's bike, the officer trying to hold the woman up to prevent her falling, and the dog following behind was sr pretty scandalous show for a Sunday or any afternoon. At court the woman denied being drunk— a strange characteristic m some people — and also denied being a rogue and a, vag. Constable McOlinchy, Sergt. Johnston and Tec. Gibson gave the harridan a woeful character, saying that she was the worst that they had ever had before the Court. The prisoner wanted to be- let off, saying that she would go to her husband at Little Eiver, and that she intended selling her furniture that day. Whether she has got any sticks it is 'difficult to tell, but at all events the lady won't haunt the streets, or the parks, or the .river sides for the next six months. Even from, a sanitary and medical point of view it is a good thing .'she is jugged, anyhow. .