SMITH'S SHACK.

NZ Truth, Issue 140, 22 February 1908, Page 6

SMITH'S SHACK.

A Dirty, Low-down Brothel. It is the second time that Alfred Smith, a pot-bellied loafer, kept a brothel and has been punished for it; 'But this time he wasn't -fined ; he was just sent down to: see. Gleary, who is alleged to be the Governor., of the Lytteltoii Inferno. Well,' Smith has had a fluttering time, and. nobody takes much notice of him bar the police. He is. hard- of hearing." "And he was so hard of. hearing at the Police Court the other day that he couldn't hear anything until boss Scully chewed his ;. noble- lug.. And his lug isn't particularly savory, either. But what does that matter, anyhow? , , . . : ' Constable Roberts told a. small tale. It was a small tale, but it had a. big effect. : He told how he had seen the pretty but notorious Mary Kerr m the house. He . described her condition. He also observed Minnie . Brown, who | is also a,, daisy, who has little bloom on tier fafce and who is somewhat eccentric m the matter of morals, and Thomas Veitch, a fancy man, not saying anything about William Kerr, the husband of the pretty Mary. . Well, the other night there was 9. regular flare-up m their house at 9 o'clock ; THE CREW WERE ALL/ TDRUNK, and things were only anyhow. It appears that they were lying drunk on the sofa. Also, one woman was lying out m the garden, open to all j&be world. A nice spectacle, truly. Constable Harvey^ who wears the blue uniform! of^a long life, told the Court on Tuesday that he bad visited the place of the defendant and her accomplices. H e didn't kiss - them,' but made a few observations^ which they accepted m a legal sens*. But jgfc. anyhow, v some ' of them were 4no good BBBftn the eyes of the Law- when they had l^g&g|d^l^at is to sa/j, tyk fibrin-!

spector and Harvey, and Harvey knows somedings. There was a man named Francis Harborough who live*' next door to the accused and who knew something about their beastly manners. They kicked up a hell of a row, and should have\|een wiped off the .premises by the landlord, if he had, a chance. There were frequentrows, and, m fact, things were mostdisgraceful. Drunken, men visited the house as well as irregular "women who were no class at all, according to • the evidence at the Court/ If the witnesses were to be believed there were rows arid bad language and what-not, and everything m the garden was beastly. The language was made use of m a loud tone of voice and WAS SOMETHING AWFUL. People who lived m Tuam-street, City, testified tliat they had seen drunken men enter the place ; that Women had entered the place ; that thing's weren't as they should be ; and that, there iwas language that was solid and strong. A chap Earned Jesse Coonvbcis was' called, and said that things m "the house .opposite weren't as they should be. He saw four or five-."fel-lows jumping over the fence again and again, at one o'clock m the morning. r Qhey were all sorts' of fellow*'.' "Day and niglafi did I see them there," he said to the S.M. "Things weren't as they should be. It isn't, really the cheese." The v ' witness was asked how tilings were during the day. ' "WeU," he said, "You would really think the house was coming down during the day." " The defendant actually said that he couldn't keep the women out of his 4 place. ..Then he. called Kate Brown, a niame that caused' something m, tie way of derision from the public./ , . Kate appears to have had a bad; time, because she met a hostile reception' from the auditors. She is. an; ugly,.unamiahle woman, who has been living with the defendant, but he said, m Court that she- was his housekeeper, pure and simple, and no--thing else- was the matter with. them. The lady, however, . : IS AN OLD PROSTITUTE, and has been convicted - previously. When he was arrested the woman and himself were m bed. But she was merely keeping house for 'him, so she i said. •• j It was shown by the police records [ that tite defendant was no class and thai he had been previously fined for keeping a -brothel, so the S.M. sent him up for three months with hard : labor, • ' <*'. ■