"ADIEU, MARIE!"

NZ Truth, Issue 234, 18 December 1909, Page 6

"ADIEU, MARIE !"

Marie Stringer, an elderly woman, faced Beak Hidden O n Thursday to answer a charge of being a common prostitute, she having l:een found importuning i v Taranalci-streat. Ccn.table Sly n n said he saw accused on the reclamation at the bottom of Taranalii street a lit .la aitor eight o'clock o n Wednesday night, m company with a number of men/ Later on, accused accosttd witmss i,nd asked him if he w o unld give her JOs. Witness said he could not as he had a mate on the beat, whereupon accused suggested that Ihe pair of hobbies should ghe her Hi. witness then called up 'his mate and arrested Stringer. He had seen her m the same locality betore. Cop. Kennedy said he was on the beat with Slynn, a nd, on being c a lled up, heard accused make the offer of tw 0 for £]. He had sse n her mi n the locality before, and did not l-now how she got her living. Accused went m -o the witness-box and saiu : "The constable came up to me and said " but here Marie's maidenly I'emurcnrss got the better of her, and she bro^e 0 » with "Oh, I don't hkc to fay it. • She sw o re she did not necost the consta 1 le, and, m the course of a statement t 0 The be a k' m a very low voice, said the constable had made the first rude remark. The S..M. t o ld .Sub-lnspectrr Norwood he need not go ?ny r.Tlher, arter he haM got from accused that she h'd spo'en to cnlv one m a n, an d He sentenced Marie 1 O a month on the hill.