AFFILIATION CASE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1916, 16 February 1885, Page 2

AFFILIATION CASE.

E. Adams v T. E. Price. Mr Bunny for the prosecution. Mr Shaw, for the defence, The witnesses were ordered out of Court. Mr Bunny said the facts were that about two years ago Mary Adams became acquainted with Price. Ho used to go with her to the Scotch church and walk with her. Eventually he made amourous overtures which she rosisted, ultimately giving way to him, understanding that lie would act honourably by her, the result being that a child was born of which he was the father. Ho would show that defendant some two years ago led the members of her family to suppose that he was going to act in an honorable manner, and many the prosecutor. Ho submitted that if he proved the case of defendants intimacy with his client, the Court would have no course but to grant the order prayed for. Mary Adams, sworn, said she was a daughter of William Adams, residing on the Opaki. She first become acquainted with defendant by going to his shop. She afterwards met him at the Presbyterian Church about eighteen months back every Sunday evening. He was in the habit of attending that Church, hut does not now, When they met after Church he used to speak to witness and her sister and walk with them to the Waipoua bridge, this continuing for three or four months. On two or three occasions defendant walked back with witness to the placo where she was in service. He treated her only with respect and nothing more. About the Ist of April last she was at the defendants' shop, and he said lie wanted to see her outside. Witness met him after he closed between eight and nine near the Post Office, she went with him to his studio round tjie back paddock. He had on two previous occasions kissed her over the counter in the shop. He promised if any trouble came to her he would not leave her. She went frequently to the shop after that and he asked her to meet him again at the back which she did. Her brother was present on one occasion when defendant said he wished to see her. Her brother went out and Mr Price then made an appointment with her to meet him later on, Her mother noticed something wrong with her and said she would have to be examined. This was between June and July! She saw Mr Price afterwards in his studio and told him she thought, she was " enciente." Three weeks before the birth of the child she saw defendant and asked him if he was not going to own to being the father of the child, He said he could not help it. Witness said there must necessarily be a law auit. Defendant said that he could not help that either. Ho was not the only one in the case. Her sister Kate was present all the time and hoard tho conversation. By Mr Shaw: She was living with her father and mother. She left Mrs Paytona service before Christmas 1883. She had left her last plaoe in August. She could swear she saw MrPrice in the Scotch church 18 months ago. She could not swear he had been there within the last 2 years, She would not swear that Mr Price was in the Scotch Church during the three or four months prior to April, He walked home with her as far as the bridge. She would swear that defendant Baw her homo to Mr Paytona once. He said once he was afraid ho would have to make her his wife. She did not make love to him first, she only took his part two or three times, He had only walked with hor on two or three Sunday evenings in company with others. She generally went in two or three times for things Bhe wanted, It was broad daylight when defendant leaned over the counter and kissed her, she did not resist. She could not account for not going to defendant or sending anyone to him from July to January except that she was ashamed to own it, She was not in the habit of walking out late at night, and would be surprised to know that she had been seen at half-past twelve at night. She was told eighteen months ago defendant had had several cases of this sort and was told before April that he had to leave Timaru on account of it. Mr Tyne tqld her of this, he was working on tho railway line and left for Hawke's Bay fivo months ago, she had known him for some time. Kate Adams, sister of the last witness, deposed that she knew defendant and remembered going into his shop. She went in and asked him if he would see her sister, He replied that he was too busy, She fetched her sister in, who asked him if she could see him privately. He said "Yes, yes, go on with it," Her sister said to him "Do you not own to being the father of the child ?" He said " Yeß I could not holp it," Her sister said "There will have to be a lawsuit," He said "I cannot help that, I am not the only one," Witness had been several times before to Mr Price's shop with her sister, Bhe Baw nothing wrong between them. They left her in the shop and occupied the back room. Sho had seen defendant in the Presbyterian church 80me time back. By Mr Shaw, Defendant did not order her sister and herself out of the shop. If her sister swore to the contrary, she did not know how it was. She had not been into the shop for 6 or 7 months prior to this last visit. Hemy Dixon Adams sworn, said he was at defendants shop with his sister last April at 9 o'clock in the evening. Mr Price asked his sister to stop as he wished

j i ■■■.■■■."■jg. to speak to her, ho asked her to p3W through to tho back room and dofendant started to close up the shop and he left her there. His sister was in service with Mrs lorns at the time. He remembered ; posting a letter to Mr Prico for his sister. He had seen defendant at the Scotch Church less than eighteen months since. His sister was in at Mr Chinchen'e when defendant used to™.' • walk to the Waipoua bridge with her. He walked with his sister every Sunday ,' night for some time. This was prior to April. By Mr Shaw. During the time he was _ ; looking at the books his sister was talking for half an hour with Mr Price, and when dofendant intimated.that lie. wanted his . ... sister to go to the back room with him he / cleared out. He would swear that a m dozen Sunday evenings before April Mr W Price nlked with his sister from tho W church to the bridge. - •... - ' Emma" Adams deposed that 'slio'was • mother.- of Mary Adams she knew';'' Mr Price the defendant.'.' About; a ' month ago after the .' doctor had ' " examined her daughter she went to Mr.' Price and asked him what he was goinic" to do about her daughter. He rc Pv«& '. "I know nothing at all about it." said she would have nothing more to |ay " to him about it, but would leave it to Court,. . .. Thomas Edward Price, the; 'defendant/' ' ; was put iii"the box by Mr' Bunny, sw'ore that lie did not. recollect receiyiliga letter by Amy Adams from her Sister,"" By Mr Shaw : : He wto nbt 'iit thi Scotch Church;for two'years. never "walked with prosecutor'itt.'the' ' streets of Masterton'in his life; . would s^rear'positively'to this; She had;'' been to his studio and had; her likenk'r, taken with her brother. She had never"'.'"'.'*;, been in the studio with hifti done and he"'.; would swear "nothing "improper had';"; ';: occurred between.tlveffl. He had never:";''; 'given her any .promise of marriage ; ; raised' her;hopes in that direction/. 1 He denied in toto having any affiliation'';.! '' cases preferred against him that caused 1 A him to leave Timaru. He had a public dinner given him fourteen days before; he y left. He left with flying colors .and. • ■ testimonials. He never knew that ho'was' accused of being the father of the until January. Mrs Adams was the first intimate to him, and the Doctor told him - • just bofore that she was coming. Ho was a member of the Scotch Church. He had'''' • not attended for two years. Henry Adams came occasionally into his shop as a customor. ,He had never walked with ? ' ' Mary Adams and he would defy them to produce any evidence outsido of the 1; family to that effect, He had always " denied being the father of the child siiico he first heard tho rumour, (Left Sittinq.)