A DIRTY DRUM.

NZ Truth, Issue 97, 27 April 1907, Page 5

A DIRTY DRUM.

Bartrum and the Bawds.

A little time ago the police successfully vagged a couple of very unvirtuous, frowsy, filthy ' females named . Annie . Evans and Jessie Hay, who used to make everybody miserable that looked at them. The polioe went a little further at the S.M. Court on Monday, last, before Dr. McArthur, S.M. 1 , when a vile old fellow named , Thomas B .r 1 a ..m was hauled up oh a ' charge of keeping a house frequented by vagrants. This dirty . drum is somewhere m King Street, and Bartrum was described as a wharf-laborer. Acoording to the story tqkl by Sergt. Beattie and constable Dixon, of Mt. Cook, the Ibint was regularly patronised by dirty low female vagrants and male drunks, who carried on at all hours, [regardless of shame or decency.

Bartrum 's excuse was that ' he could not help what went on while he was away, and that he had turned the women out repeatedly, but. like chickens, they liad come home to roost again.

The Magistrate did not believe the dirty fellow, more particularly as he had lied to the police about not having dirty drunken dames on the premises, and the police had peeped into a room, and saw them snoring on a bed. Bartrum had nothing further to say, except that the Dolice were liars, and the Magistrate fixed him up with three months' hard labor addin?:, "You are. worse lhan those you had there by: a long way.."