A SHAMEFUL AND SORROWFUL STORY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6948, 23 February 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

A SHAMEFUL AND SORROWFUL STORY.

On Saturday (say & home paper jbf. recent, date) a person came before the .magistrate:: at Thames Police-court to ask his advice'as , to!/ what he should do to make avpersen, ;>vho ■ had seduced his daughter, Buppor£yher;and; her child. It appears that about;.fifteen;.or eighteen months ago the girl ;ih'question;; who was possessed of considerables personal attractions, was employed as ajbarmaid'at,' an hotel which is situated withinjtbie:iiirisr : : ' diction of this court. The laudlbrd ; of/the;, house, who was a married manAvithithree or : four children, became enamored :of; her; arid paid her such marked attentiori;as; to eause.considerable unpleasantness between;hiin and. his wife. Tlifl girl seems to have, encouraged her admirer, uotil at last the'wifeY.tbld'.ber? husband that she would leave him and; take.; the children with her if he did.not: discharge/ the barmaid. This, however, ilie fl itly.doVclined to do, and his wife thereup'otff'corisul-.' her relatives as to the steps she ehbuld;take "under the circumstances. Before,vK6wcver,, anythiua could be decided uponijtheihusband; aud the yirl disappeared together; :leaving;no trace whatever to track them the wife had time to recover;.. herself Vehe' liecamo aware that uot only hadher husband'; deser'ed her, but ha had left, her 'almost* neunilcss, and without the means-^'as'.ahe ,'. first imagined ehe had—of earDiuc; : a^Biibsis-; tence for herself aud her little pries,; Jas? not only had he taken away, all; "tile* money aud valuables that were'portable; but; he had, unknown to her, disposed, of hisi; interest in the business, together: ..jrith. the: furniture aud other effects. :;A ; ..;few,' days.. after lit- had gone, the persous!.to.whom : the : place had been sold entered arid, took; possession, and the wife with her little;pbes.had to. go out into the street with nothing more than' : they stnod upright in. They, were,,without-f-ieud3 iu London, aud, after walking about for some time, had to seek shelter .iri.;.,tho. workhouse, where they remairied.for,.somelittle time until the wife's relations,-found what had beeoaie of them, and took her, andher childrea out. The girlV. father, now stated that when his daughter, went;.away with her master he took her to..various parts, of the country, and at last they went abroad,;, where they stayed for the best part; of, a twelvemonth. Whilst they were laways'a child was born to her. and this her I master pretended to be very fond of at first.. ■»After , a time, however, his manner began to change, \ aud he neglected the girl. ... He had., now: brought her home to London, and, after thoyh.td been here about a week, he had sent the girl back to him (applicant) with her baby in a most deatitute condition.: ;Sho|had/a fair quantity of jewellery forja girl sin her position >. .icn ttho went away, and ahe had somp good clothes. The clothes,;however,, were all worn out, and her jewellery had been either pawned or aold by the man she, went away with. He (applicant) ; waß not in a position to keep her and her child. now, : and she could not, at any rate for some time, go out to earn her own livelihood again, and he therefore wanted to know whether the father of the child could not be mado to support it and her. His worship told the applicant that the girl could institute proceedings and try to obtain an affiliation order against the parson she said waa the father of her child, but ehe could not compel him to to support her, ;.j .-.-,, ■■■■ '■ :: f ■■