WENT TO PARTIES TOGETHER

NZ Truth, Issue 1240, 5 September 1929, Page 8

WENT TO PARTIES TOGETHER

Romantic Association of Young Couple Ended In Court

a YOUTH'S DENIALS ARE DISBELIEVED

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William Lapslie, who had been keeping company with Agnes Margaret Taylor from November, 1928, until June last, denied that he was the father of the girl's unborn child. The magistrate, Mr. H. . P; , Lawry, S.M., after hearing the evidence, accepted the girl's story and made an order against Lapslie.

MR. A. H. CAVELL., who appeared for the girl, said that; .Unfortunately, .she had been m trouble previ-. ously, having given birth- to a. child two years ago: He was. afraid that an attack would-be made oh her because of this trouble. The girl, who was 22 years of age, said she was introduced to Lapslie m November last, by a man called Irving, and from then until/ June had been going out with him. A party ,of four, comprising herself and Lapslie, and Irving and a Miss Dixon, were m the habit of attending dances and parties, together. "There had 'been impropriety, between her and Lapslie '-frequently ; between January and June, she said, but the occasion out of which the application arose, was between February '5 and Februax-y 11. ' ■ ■ She had discovered her -plight about March 2 and had informed Lapslie a few days afterwards. She continued to go out with him. She arranged with Lapslie to meet him on June 13, but when she went to keep they Appointment she found that he had not arrived. Oh the following day, a Frjday, she went to the butchers-s hop; at which: Lapslie had been employed, but found that he was not, there. She returned on the Monday .^and was told by a man m the shop that he was still away. • The man did not know what had happened to him,, and said that ho should have started work on the Thursday of the previous 7 week. .

She had last .spoken to ALapslle about her. trouble on the Sunday- '"- -before 1 he went, away; and had then asked . him whether he still intended defending the case. ... . -. .'... ..' ■' '„-'.-'■' ■'. '.A' He. replied: "Certainly I do." V "You know jolly well that you!re the father," the girl told him, but he re-, plied that he did not know so much about that. "Did Lapslie suggest that you had been out with anyone else?" asked Mr. Amodeo. . The girl: No. Did he suggest who might be the father of the. child?— No. ' What .did he say. to Irving m l-cgard to you?— He said tnat All c knew I was m trouble, but he did not say that he was the father. Have you been out with anyone else? — I. once walked home from a dance with a boy called Hollo way and with Irving and Miss Dixon. Miss Taylor alleged that she had accused Lapslie of runningaway-to avoid trouble. He had replied that-, he did. not run away, but he knew that he had no work to go back to* and had, gone to another job. . When she went to the. shop she was told that there was still work there for him.-. '.'■ - AA ■ Mr. Amodeo said that ALapslle had hot run away. He . , left Weir's butcher's shop because Weir 'was giving up business. Mr. Weir had since gone to Sydney. • After medical evidence had been heard an affiliation order was made, the amount of maintenance to be paid [being held over m the meantime.