BOLTED!

NZ Truth, Issue 141, 29 February 1908, Page 6

BOLTED !

The Erring Wife and the Ped. There is something mean and despicable about the man who hasn't the moral courage to marry and. support a wife, but who takes advantage of somebody else's legal partner and wrecks a home m satisfying his lustful and vicious passions. Complaints have been made at this office of a professional running man, whose favorite distances are 440 yds and 880 yds, and who induced a young woman to leave her husband m Gore and travel round the country with him as his mjistress. The unfortunate woman met the brute at Gore, probably at a sports meeting, and * later went to the Bluff, where she was again seen with c ped. They put up at the saffl'. odging-house, and their familiarity was' so marked that a scandalised landlady found it expedient to interfere. The woman returned to Gore, but Mt her home to stay with some Mends just outside that rising, centre. Her visit to them was a blind,, however, fpr she joined her fancy man on a later date, and proceeded with liim to the North Island. She accompanies him from meeting to meeting and lives ,with Mm as his wife. They were cohVait-i ing thus at Palmer aton North, New Plymouth and other places . where Caledonian sports are held, and THE CONBUCT. OF THE PAIR is so marked as to have reached the dignity of a gra^e scandal. In horseracing trainers and jockeys have to be very circumspect before they can obtain licenses to compete m events and this paper desixes to know it i>he Caledonian SoGiety. authorities are going to bring disgrace upon their meetings by further ■accepting the nomination of this man, whose open immorality is calculated to bring running /into . disrepute. iVC&en these facts become known; through '? 'Truth" > v it As . probable that the public will avoid' any meeting that is likely to be of benefit to the ; social monster, but independent- of this the name of a cur^who is living m open adultery with another man's wife should not" be permitted to appear m the list of nominations of any respectable athletic organisation. It is probable that when the lecherous clown has tired of . his plaything, he: wjll cast her off., and the unfortunate; victim of his lust' will drift to 'the fate of all fallen women, if a helping hand is not extended to her ; but we understand that the husband, who is m a good position, is willing to take the erring one back to his heart and home ; and if anyone made acquainted with" the facts through our columns gives some help towards the consummation of that desirable object, he or she will have done a good action that will have its reward some tame or other.