SHOCKING CASE

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 April 1914, Page 5

SHOCKING CASE

MAXIMUM PENALTY INFLICTED. ar IKLEGKAPH—FEB PREHB ASSOCIATION WELLINGTON., This Day. A deplorable state of affairs was revealed at the Magistrate's Court this morning, when Emily Johnson, Edith Honda MeKenzie, Mee Hung, and George Leonard Bull pleaded guilty to being idle and disorderly person*, and not guilty to assisting in the management of a brothel. Bull was described as a plumber out of work ; the Chines* as a gardener who would be sent to work at Otaki In a friend. The counsel asked Mr. Cooper, S.M., to order them to come up for sentence when called upon. - Inspector Hendry saiO that the men had been living upon Lie two women for some time. .His Worship was asked to show pity and to burden Otaki with such animals as these Europeans, who spent what money they got on drink. The Chinaman's object was simply to make as much as possible, as lie had done no honest work in Wellington. He was simply a gambler and a bludger. "Your Worship has no power adequately to punish (hem. If you had full power you would simply send them to destruction," said the Inspector The men were each sentenced to the maximum of three months' imprisonment. The second charge was withdrawn. The women were ordered to spend twelve months in the Salvation Army Home.