MARY MAVOURNEEN.

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

MARY MAVOURNEEN.

Shicker and Shame.

Mary Kerr, a 1 well-known "Christ- 1 church moll, is one of the hardest of cases that that city possesses. And yet she is only' m "her twenties, and has done time for various offences. Drink may be at the bottom of Mary's continual lapses from virtue, or it j may be an inherited tendency to go to ' the devil— at all events she gets there \ every time. She is a married woman, and isn't a bad looking married woman at that, but goes off the handle rather too frequently for her own fair i fame. Her husband has been working at the exhibition buildings, and the cpuple have. been living; at .Ne,w Brighton, but ; the missus has; had a job at. Mrs Murphy's Jubilee Laundry. She appears to have lost this through swankey the other day, and the police nailed her on a couple of informations, namely, obtaining drink while prohibited, and with being an idle and , disorderly person, who has a .penchant for' mixing with prostitutes and other objectionable people of that sort. Mr Leatham, who appeared far the-accttsedrsaid she pleaded guilty to both. Her record was so bad that she didn't have much option m. the matter. ]jt transpired, from what Sergeant Norwood stated, that Mary K. has been having a rare Old time m other people's houses. In a fortnight no fewer than- Tour complaints? had been received; from .various quarters about the woman. In one case she had .actually commandeered the bed of the otyner of,, tjie, house, and was ,i sleeping quietly • aiitj peacefully on Why Mary .tumbled, in? :tljere isn't stated, but ■presumiblykCshei "thought 'that as good 'a, place ras^t; not 'better than; anywhere; else; .; A^^ahy' rate, people, objected tp..tlieX\7eli-ar,essed prostitute; and (her ; Dials ; ;ipoi^;-vroUnd'.'-the'ii'". : 'd'6^ micile^ , m , a .'sem^runken, ■condition; and. the police, were, called up on . a number of occasions;: Then the, ring-i leader was •. boxedl ' v Lawyer Lea>tham ■ urgfed th^t the 1 wpinan shpuW be given another husband-^-a-, voting man— was , now m: constant work,. and, he wbuld . endeaypr; tc y-. keep:j her;' sit* home. ; at New Brightbn.' But Magisr trate^ Btahpp wash U \ inclined; to ,w do anything of ttie;;%rt./at the- outset^ and Sefgt. Norwood irienticme'd that there . was a ch;ai:ge; pending against the husband for obtaining /liquor hiin-j self, .' he"^ being! a; prohibited, person.' After some^p^l^er^.jthe. i?eak : decided to rend -the, atbcus^ ■ t|ie , ;Armv 'Ome-for a 'quarter^ s6 ;;; Her 'husband will"' lose hef v sp;ciet^for-;that • period. : ,