FoUL SEDUCER.

NZ Truth, Issue 79, 22 December 1906, Page 6

FoUL SEDUCER.

TiilS CHURCH. A CLOAK FOR WRONG-D.OING. ' ..." Heartless Skunk Who'Crisi'l Marry i__e (iir iiwu.iise .Jie.'s «i i-Yoie ta.-i. Nobody- ever has, much time for the r.'iiiii who: seduces ik-cu - wcai-: iei_.ia_.t_ and .whea she is m trouoje leaves her m ihe lurch' and ..sp far forgets ,his manhood as to besmirch the poor girl's character so as .io practically 'brand her as an abandoned creature of the town. Wellington possesses numerous' soulless skunks of that description and the pity of it all is tba't"there' is"no liaw'-^Tl^cli^tl&ir., though if they got theitr deserts they wpuld be -reached with , a. 1 length .of salted cow-hide, jvell laid across their naked buttocks. >

Such, a skunk, a, packer by profession, employed m a -well-known Wellington firm, is at present loose m this city. and, judfrine. from the tale told of his cowardly treatment of a poor girl who succumbed to his foul embraces he outfit to be wiped ofi the face of this earth.

It is a simple tale and the old one. By promises of marriage and other fairy tales the dirty dog bested the girl, who shortly .afterwards found herself m a sad predicament. Appeals to the pig packer to make her ah honest woman were made m vain. He repudiated all responsibility, thus branding his victim as a common woman, which she was not. However, the despicable man made a wretched liar of himself by magnanimously givinn* the girl £3 towards defraying the cost of an operation to be performed upon her. That, however, is only a side issue.- When he was . asked to marry the girl, who is a Protestant, he held up his .hands m holy horror and pious grief, and declared that as he was a Roman Catholic, the dictates of his Church forbade him to, take unto wife one of a different relirrion to himself. Whether the Roman Catholic ' Church forbids such marriage or not is out of the question (and,, as a matter of fact, the R.C Church does not), the kind of individunl that would take advantage of such an edict to the ruin of a trustinn- girl is a disgrace to any church, Catholic or Protestant, and to seduce' a girl by, the promise of. marriage and then plead "religion" as a bar to marriage is to provo himself a disgrace and renegade to any Christian faith. As a Catholic this scoundrelly seducer oup-ht to be excommunicated. Having 4 ruined one girl,* this . packer, a tin-not Don Juan m his way, is bestowing attentions on other gir'* and doubtless if the lecherous Lov_j-.no succeeds ih his intentions the Holy Roman Catholic faith will again* be draff-red m the mire and used, as religion often is, to aat as a cloak to healrtless wrongdoing.