HARRY HAS TO PAY.

NZ Truth, Issue 145, 28 March 1908, Page 7

HARRY HAS TO PAY.

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t The Unprincipled male humans who'"■iiaye sexual Indiscretions with wo--and then, like the heartless »h^gs that tbey are, desert ,t-hem those women find themselves like Leah, the sister of -Rachel, are thick upon the face of .this' ungodly, Those hogs that don't do pthe Pacific slope, or scare the \un--3f ottuna-te women, into silence with tales of harrowing publicity, l -' generally form the nucleus of an m. Vtefesting Police Court ceremony, Vwherein the sorrowing mother alleges ; i 'that if there was not a marriage serVvi^e she was a true and faithful wife : ;fto;' the defendant, and the deJendtoit accuses the plaintiff of al-

lowing quite a number of other trousered bipeds to associate themselves ! with her. ; fPhe defendant usually/ maintains a haughty exterior, and an air of righteous indignation, while poor Eve, on the other side of the Court, with white face and tired eyes, gazes at her betrayer as if his duplicity had about put out her light so i far as the world is concerned. All very well this, as a show, but it ge- ! nerally ends jby the defendant climb- . ing down from his high pedestal and pljilosopihically, paying so many Roberts per weeki Therefore, it as refreshing to find a defendant deterI mined to defy the powers that he, and ; prepared to go to gaol rather than 1 pay for what is adjudged his illegal offspring. Some six months ago a callow youth' yclept Harry Patterson, wfco lives m a place with an ungodly name (Puketeraki), was hauled before Beak Widdowson m Dunedin and curtly asked what he proposed doing ABOUT A CERTAIN CHILD that had come to light per medium of a single '.woman resident m his district. Harry was known to have been more frequently m the company of this unfortunate than, ordinary, conversation demanded, and this fact; together with the lady's statement, had caused a warranty to be issued that intimately 'concerned Harry. That gentleman .denied ever misconducting himself .with the young mother ; r said'hehad never thought of ify never wished it. Had an idea "Chat, others had, though. . But . Harry. , w«s ordered' to pay for the uhdesired infant,'and also to fork out costs. Hiarry vowed by all the little tin saints "that he wouldn't. He didn't. He appeared- before his old friend Widdowson the other day charged with failing to comply with the order, and also with not : paying certain funeral expenses (the child hod died). Ihe accumulation of arrears was big and solid, and Harry said he had not the slightest intention of paying them. The deceased infant was the work of another irian, and he had never been unduly familiar with its mother. He had never, been properly treated by the Court, and he would be glad to let the Court see it. Verb sap •! He was warned that it was pay or gaol. "Let 'em all come," said the aggravated Harry, and an angry Benqh sent him up for six weeks' hard without the" option. The matter of funeral expenses will be discussed with Harry six weeks hence. It is, at least, pleasing to meet someone with the 'courage of his opinions.