THE SIN OF KISSING.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3537, 27 April 1880, Page 2

THE SIN OF KISSING.

The kissing case recently heard at Waimate shows-how it is necessary that • the aegis of the law should be thrown around unprotected males to guard them from the wiles of offended females. In the good old days kissing was no offence, but now indulgence in the luxury exposes a man to severe pains and penalties, as witnesses the following:—Mr L. Price met Mitts Elizabeth Johnson, a lady's companion, in the dark opposite an hotel v in Waimate, where she accosted him, and he accompanied her as far as a certain JJr Hoardley's gate, which one of the learned counsel, in reply to the Court, admitted to be " a kissing gate." So far the witnesses agree, but from this point their evidence is in conflict. Miss Johnson alleges that Pnca put his arm around her neck and attempted to kiss her, but Price, innocent soul, says that in opening 4 the gate he merely passed his fight hand across her, touching her shoulder, that .*he" did not attempt -y to kiss her, and that had he wished to kiss her he could have done so. On this evidence the Bench found that defendant had admitted having committed an assault even even by his own, evidence, and inflicted a fine of £5. Counsel for the - defendant, however, gave notice of appeal on the point of law as to whether an assault had been committed, and to there i? every prospect of the whole lair of kissing being gone into before a faUDench of Judges, i: '•':.■ ; "