UNFORTUNATE CASES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8107, 11 May 1906, Page 2

UNFORTUNATE CASES.

TWO GIRLS SENT TO SALVA- ! • TION ABMY HOMES. After roaming nearly all night over the sandhills, the Recreation Grounds, and all other likely and many unlikely places, hunting for a pair of young women who wore reported to havo " no visible means of support,' Constable Price found his quarry in, front of the Waitun post offioo just after 7 o'clock on Thursday morning, and brought them into New Plymouth for trial. Messrs E. Dookrill and C. E. Bellringer, Justioes, oocupied the Bench. Both of the girls admitted that they had no means of earning a livelihood, and one of them was uncertain abeut the willingness of her step-parents to "gain receive her into tho family bosom.

Sergeant Haddwll P rosoo uted, #nd volunteered the statement the parents and guardians of th e _j r i, | ln( i been warned by the polie 6j an(l a d confessed the girls "ad got bevond ental control. The «irl s , \ t sa ifl, who were only seventeen aml years old, respectively. n a d been for a long time consorting with bad com-1 panions. He gave a few particulars. He had spoken to the younger girl's father that morning, and his advice was to "punish them as severely as von can."

Constable Price, tho arresting eonstable, said the girls had admitted to him their questionable mode of earning their living.

The police called the step-father of the elder girl, and he stated that she had been given several chances. She was a splondid girl to work, and her! only reason for leaving home was objectionable disposition to roam aW ate at night. She would ]. 6 t be al lowed to return homo How; but he would pay her fare fa, the Sabution

nnitiij-T ll ™' Salvation Armv oflicer, ploarfoil for the girls, and offered to take them into tho Amy Hesoue uome, where thoy- would have every opportunity of reforming andlbecoming good wwncn. Tho Army was able in mauv eases to do permanent good. The girls signified thoir willingness to gi to the Homo,

Tho Bench decided to sentence the accused to three months" imprisonment with the option of serving tho term in the Salvation Army Home. JUAdjiitant Melksham undertook to s'Mul one to tho Auckland Home, and thft other to the Paulina Home in Wellington.