KINDLY COP ACCUSED. '

NZ Truth, Issue 72, 3 November 1906, Page 6

KINDLY COP ACCUSED. '

"I was staying at his place, and he gave me the brandy" said Edith Firth at the Christchurch Police Court when she was charged with drunkenness, and with having procured liquor at Su-mner while there was a prohibition order out against her. It turned out that the man at whose place she had been staying was Constable Hampton, of Sumner, and "hfe place" was the lock-up, and the brandy he procured for the frail and fanciful Edith was to stop her having any more fits— she had two, it seems, and the Constable didn't quite know what to do about it. However, he got the laidy some eau de something, and placed it m her tea, and then she turned round at Court and blackguarded him for it. He didn't know the lady was prohibited until the city books had been investigated. It isn't every peeler who would procure a tonic for a Government patient m this generous fashion, and the wonder is that a greater quantity of people don't ~et run m down at Sumner at week end. However, they are evidently a very abstemious lot of persons down that way. Edith Firth In';? apart from her husband, ; who ;cV'c!'.-9 cwv Si. Alba** 1 ' my, jss.ii,

she turns up and meets him now and again. In the interim she visits her own people at Sydenham, and has a' cut at the hotel tumbler. On the Saturday night, although prohibited, she had a skMul, and' fell off a tram while trying to board it, and she 1 duly "fell m" when Hampton happened along. A Salvarmy lass was m court and offered to take Edith along to the Home, for 'a. few months, where she will have a chance to pray like the devil, and work like a nigger and amend her thirsty ways.