"CONSIDERABLE MEANS"

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 70, 15 December 1917, Page 8

"CONSIDERABLE MEANS"

AND A COMMENSURATE FTMS. . ' MivS.E. M'Carthy, S.M., yesterday dealtywith the case of May Egan, who, in the .days before, six o'.clpek closing, was. found in .the. bar V the New Commercial Hotel after-6 f>.rh;, The charge was laid under the War' Regulations, .which prohibited a woman from entering a bar .after that, hour.'' "Sir. P. W. Jackson represented the accused, who pleaded He'said that Egan entered the bar merely to get a parcel that she had left there with a friend in tho afternoon. The parcel contained rhubarb, which sho proposed to eat on the following day. Sergeant Wade gave evidence thnt on October 4. about 0 p.m., he and_ a. constable found-the accused laughing and chatting in the bar among a number of men. Asked who she was, s-he gave a fictitious name nt first, but afterwards gave her own name Egan I was. .reputed to be a prostitute, but had not been. convicted of being one. She was half drunk on the night in question.. . ■ ',' Mr. Jiickson: Is sh» iioi ii, girl r:f considerable, means.?— Witness: °I do not know anything about her iiieans. ■ Mr. Jackson.: T know she-is'a" girl ci considerable means/ His Worship: I hnve known several prostitutes who died very wealthy, t look upon this excuse about the. rhubarb as .a. verv thin one, Mr. Jackson. If she had-had to-get-a.-parcel she could have gone to ths office. Mr. Jackson: You, will understand that the friend was. an employee i\ the bar.' • • His Worship replied that that would not have prevented Egan fiwn getting the parcel through the pfii«". Phe would be fined £20.. Mr. Jackson (in doubt): £"2, sir? Hie' Worship: £20. Mr. Jackson: Will.Yonr Worship allnw time in which to pay? . His Worship: If she is; a girl ct considerable means _she. can get the money. No time will be allowed. Mr'. Jackson: Well, sir, £20 is a pretty stiff sum. Will you allow ■ one week, sir? His Worship: I will not. M r . Jackson: Twenty-four hours,His Worship: I am not going te crnnt time. .'.•.•• Mr. Jackson: All I can say, sir. is that it is a verv unusual thing, for a first offender to.comc. before a. Court and be • ■ • . ■■■'' His Worship: Are you the.Tudge or am I? 1 have given mv decision, nnd iiothing you can say will induce me to alter it.