Second Edition. DEPRAVED MORTALS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3, 24 April 1914, Page 6

Second Edition. DEPRAVED MORTALS.

"FIT FOR THE DESTRUCTOR." [Pkb Prebs Association.! ~ Wellington, April 24. A deplorable state of affairs was revealed at the Magistrate's Court this morning, when Emily Johnson, Edith Florida. McKenzie, Mee Hnng and George Leonard Bull, pleaded guilty to being idle "and disorderly persons and not guilty to assisting in the management of a brothel. Bull was described as a plumber out of work and the Chinese as a gardener •who would be sent to work at Otaki by a friend. Counsel asked Mr Cooper, S.M., to order them to come up for sentence when called upon. Inspector Hendry said the men had been living upon two women for some time. His \Vorship was asked to show pity and not to burden Otaki with such animals as these. The European spent the money he got in drink, but the Chinaman's object was simply to make as much as possible. He had done no honest work in Wellington and was simply a gambler and "bludger." The Inspector added: "If Your Worship had full power you would simply send them to the destructor." The men were each sentenced to the maximum of three months' imprisonment, the "second charge being withdrawu,and the women were ordered to spend twelve months in the Salvation Army Home.