A Sunday Scandal.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 24, 18 June 1914, Page 5

A Sunday Scandal.

TAXI MAN'S ACCOUNT. GIRL'S SCREAMS ALARMED .'-Si I OTHER OCCUPANTS. 'Wt Christeliurcli, June I%'jMJ The police die on a hot **ent foriMß young man cr young men for Sunday' 1 ; taxi-cab ctpiaod>', m wldnH a girl of 'lfteen was turned cut <*fd|H car, drunk, on Rollcston avenue, TJSH car concerned is a big touring car wn9| a hood. It w.ls driven by Jauioa Sil|jj9 a licensed driver. His explanation Wis the ejection J the girl into the stresM& says the Star, is that she became b#WH on the way lonic and it was intendejlM to drive her t» t'iie hospital, In Roll«*$lj ton avenue ;t gentleman car to see w!i.■ t Uie row wm uhout, »nfM on ascertain.ng the state of affai-s the girl into a hou<-c close by and w».'.J| up for tliu pclice. Tlie motor-car 'wiVjl found to contain iiair combs, hair ri7*sf bons, «n<i x other evidences of disorder. ''** It is -UU'd that tlie police have beWvj informed at what hotel Che liquor wtk-3

procured on Sunday.

SALT a STORY. , 7-y| iSalt says that he knew the two girlg ':'% slightly. About 4 p.m. on Sunday «•'*■"! of them came to tan and 1 said that if ~'M he would drive around to Horefon!.J , 'j!s street there was a job waiting for hinv. ;| He went there, and f round the girl and a, man whom he did not know, ~£.]! The party said they wanted to <b« 'Hg driven to New Brighton, They hardly started when they changed their j» minds, and said tiiey would go to Kate? 1 y«i. They went to the hotel where till ..'! man was staying, got his overcoat, and'', ;j drove to Kaiapoi.. They had tea at <*» ! , -J Mandevibe Hotel there, ana after staying a few minutes longer set off WT fM home. Salt says that on the way home' ''j the elder girl got into the front of the % car with; him. On the way back they,' '.J had called at Salt's aunt's house, where T « they stayed for aibout a quarter of. ui j'j hour. They started a<?ain, and when at Bapanui the girl began to scream *Hj< Salt turned rcund and asked what the •'$ matter was, saying that "that was no , 3 good to him." He says that every time >jjs the girl was askedl anything sne screamed. '• _ ~ys GIRL SCREAMED AGAIN, S* ■$

At the Oarlton Hotel corner she com* ;,; menced screaming again, and Salt Raid-. ? that he would take her straight to the . V hospital. When in Rolleston Avenue .'*g some young fellows wero standing in"' .jj the road, and one of them jumped ■$ to the footboard of car. Salt pull- '"% ed up, and his three passengers got \i out. Two women came out of a house .'„'-3j near by, and asked what was wrong ■■""* with the girl. Salt said that he, '.■• thought she was in hysterics, and he-' •'-, was taking her to the hospital. They ._* Said they would look after her, and the . man and the girl walked off. After waiting awhile, Salt drove the -_{» second girl home, and then went to the i!-"i Excelsior Hotel to find the man, as he .;£, had not been paid his hire. "rl