REMARKABLE AFFILIATION CASE.

Te Aroha News, Volume 64, Issue II, 23 August 1884, Page 3

REMARKABLE AFFILIATION CASE.

A Model Sydney Approntico. TitK other day at tho Central Police Court, Sydney, boforo Mr O'Malley Clarke, S.M., Georgo Kailton, agod 1G years, and described as a jeweller's approntico, was summoned to show ca-ÜbO wliy lio should not contribute towards the support of tho illegitimate child of Fanny Chapman, who charged him with being its father. Fanny Chapman, tho complainant, a young woman of about IS years of age, of prepossessing appearanco, was called and sworn. She said she had known tho defendant for tho past twelve months. In October last ho lirst had connection with her in tho University paddock, but she could not recall the (into. During that month he had connection with hor throe or four times?. In November fehe found that she was in the family way. She w cut to Dr. Cole, who examined her, and told her that she wa? enceinte. She had then been pregnant only two months. "When she told defendant of her condition, lie exclaimed, " Oh, Cod '" ThiswasatMrsßrown's house at tho Glebe, and ho had just recovered from a serious illness. She had been told that he was guttering from pains in tho back. He advised her to sec a doctor and he would pay the oxponses, and ho gave her a £1 note. She did not see him after January 19, and on July 10 tho child was born, and she wrote to him informing him of the fact, but he never replied. She believed ho is a jeweller's apprentice and earning 10s Gd a week ; he was 10 years of ago, which she ascertained at the ltegistrar-General's office. He was 10 when he first walked with her, and he had connection with her in October, and not in November. On November 10 she quarrelled with him. The quarrel arose in the following way : — The members of St. Barnabas's Sundayschool, to which they both belonged, had a picnic somew here down the harbour. The defendant did not havo connection with her on that occasion, but ho got drunk, and she was disgusted at a young man like him so far forgetting himself. She knew a young man named Arthur Brown. Defendant had introduced him to hor. On one occasion during defendant's illness she had walked out with Biown as far as tho University paddock gate and back. Sho did not go into the paddock with Brow n, w ith whom she was on intimato speaking terms. Brown saw her home on the night in question, since when she had not seen him. The complainant admitted that the defen- 1 ant had not had connection with her since the night she was out with Arthur Brown. George Hailton. the defendant, a finelooking youth, who looked to be con sidorably over 16 years of age, was called and sworn. lie said ho would bo 17 years of ago next February. Ifc produced his apprentices' indentures, which were dated January 12th, ISS2, and wherein he was stated to be 13 years of age. They were signed by his father. For tho first year of hi^ indentures ho received 2s Gd per week, for tho second ss, and he was now getting 10s Gd per week. lie resided with his mother. When Miss Australia Chapman asked him last Saturday what ho intended to do for her sister, he said ho was not the father of tho child, and told them they could do as they liked in the matter. He had not threatened to leave Sydney, but told them that he might write on Wednesday. Ho could not say whother ho was tho father of the child or not, but ho did not i think he was. Ho had had connection with tho complainant between September and October hist year. Mr O'Malley Clarke ultimately made an ordor on the defendant to contribute 5s a week towards tho maintenance of the child, and 5s lOd costs.