A BAWDY HOUSE.

NZ Truth, Issue 143, 14 March 1908, Page 6

A BAWDY HOUSE.

Chaffey Clapped m Chokee. •

Laura Mary Chaffey is one of those specimens of indifferent . humanity that c;:i*sed the polios to go to some trouble to weed them,, out. of the community or give them quarters Tn the local stone apparatus wheie queer looking clothing is compulsory. Laura M. is a prime prostitute- and jdoesn't s^eem to be ashanaed- of the 'dirty fact. She seems' to make a good armful, but, of course,, that is beside the question. She bias been running a shameless brothel m Mar-tin-street, somewhere near., the East Belt, or whatever it is called, and has proved a positive nuisance to the neighbors who reside thereabouts. They made legal complaints, and finding that things weren't all they ought to be tlie police made a small raid. Sergt. Morgan, and Constable Watson calling rqund as early as 2.30 a.m. on a certain day. ..' They, were unwelcome visitors, of, course, but Mrs Chaffey offered to do the honors of the house to the distinguished visiting pair. Well, they looked round on their own account, and* found morals m a most. . deplorable state and not edifying to the community The defendant is lessee of the house. In the front room was found a couple. In the second there was ANOTHER LOVING PAIR, ' including a. sailor and a woman named McCully. There was also another McCullv present— the woman who one?' threatened "Truth" for libel because it said that the McCullys were out i and out prostitutes. May the Lord deliver us ! Lawyer Leatham wan unable to refute the evidence of th* nolice, so he put m a nlea of guilty. The prisoner, Chaffey, who has been divorced by her husband, said that her mother, who is m Sydney, is pretty well-to-do. Her own house wasn't conducted as a brothel: she wasn't out nt nil hours of the morning. She had never seen anything wrong with the girls. '.Magistrate .Day said that it was accused's first offence, ovd plie had hpttpi fo un for two* months. So th-2 divorced Tama wi'll'Vc divorced from hex old companions for that period at all events.