SUMY SEDUCER SAVERS.

NZ Truth, Issue 83, 19 January 1907, Page 6

SUMY SEDUCER SAVERS.

Poor Maritana Eitiauuel's Mistake.

married man who deceives a girl as ,to bis true position, makes ardent love to her, and eventually obtains such mastery over her as to induce her to yield " herself to him •body and soul, under promise of marriage, ,is a damned, bounding blackguard "who, isn't fit lor the sq,ciety of women, or decent society of any, kind. That m-en already married do carry on these pranks with single feniininity is; of course, too well known to need mention, but m the vast majority of cases the girls who .flirt with them, and worse, know that they are married, and that makes all the -difference. They are aware they are wronging soine unsuspecting wife, that they are. taking fire risks, and that their paramours cannot marry them.

THE ILLICIT AMOURS oi a- lying hound named Harold Sayers, dentist, formerly of Cliristchurch, Jbut who has now cleared out, have just come to light, and m a most curious manner. Sayers happened across a dark complexioned girl named Maritan-a : Emanuel, a somewhatromantic name which indicates Italian origin, but it appears that there ds nothing. of the Dago m her veins. Her parents were opposite m color, iblack and white. However, Maritana is a good-lookm^ damsel, and walks jauntily with swingling hips. She took the fancy of Sayers, and she m turn "became fond of him, and they kept company for a considerable period. It was' a period of love and bliss, and when he proposed marriage the girl accepted and then she speedily lost her chastity and became as clay m the scoundrel's hands. Intercourse was frequent, and everything went haripily uijtil the girl found herself about to become a' mother. Sayers assured her. m soft, love-like tones, that he, would lead her to the altar 'shortly, and the confiding girl had perfect faith m ttte rascal and patiently waited the time when she should

GET OVER HER TROUBLE. ■Every time • they met Sayers repeated ihis sinful lie, and after the .•birth of the child he said that she could take a lew weeks to regain her strength and then they would be made one. But when that time arrived he put it ofi and told her to go and retrister the infant, she to say that her name was Sayers, and that she was married to him, Harolt? 'Sayers, and that the infant y/as consequently legitimate. This wasdone, and then she discovered that Sayers was a married man and that he had grossiv deceived her. Presently he cleared away from Ohristchurch altogether.

All this 'happened a few years ago, but the secret, came out t'other day when the girl Maritana Emanuel, otherwise Maritana Williams, (she appears to have picked up with Williams sinee V was charged at Christchimh with having. made

A FALSE DECLARATION to tlic Registrar of Births, Deaths ar(LJyiarriage?. She was represented jF^SGi Loafuarn. In answer to a £?%• the young woman said her 7VTa*ri,t?.na Emanuel. JPfcvfrar ■ Williams, the first wit**fi£,. s-lf-fl ttuit en ' October 4, .1904-, a )■ riii'l '-i.-Ji/wl Dolores ■' Bayers was $oQi-\Ws&\:v Maritana Sayers, whose iji'iHl ■"'';•* \i\c wki: Emanuel. The in<;\nt -vif:-; roistered, as legitimate.. ■ CTe r^reni* v/sre alleged to have at Rotheram, m Oan- * JW&W m December, 1902.

Rotheram is m The Amuri district, and Bateman Thomas Missen, postmaster at Waiau, who is also registrar, said he had searched tlie register to see if the parties mentioned had l>een married m 1903, but there was no record of such a happening.

i The present disclosures came out through enquiries that were made by Sergeant Rcmer. of Sydenham, m November last. He approached Maritana E-mamiel with reference to the Jegal adoption of the child m question. He inqaiired her name, and she said that it was Maritana Williams, being married to a man named Williams. Her maiden name, was Emanuel. Reiner then elicited the fact that the child was illegitimate, the father's name being George Sayers. Further, that she hadn't seen Sayers .sin os 1 THE BIRTH OF THE CHILD. The Sergeant made further inquiries, and when he next interviewed the ■v\«6man i she was m company with the man Williams. He told her that he had searched the Registrar's book antT Had failed- to find the' name !of George Sayers there. Then she said it was Harold Sayers ; Williams chipped m that the infant had been registered as legitimate, and then, the woman admitted that it was so, and that she lcmew she had done wrong m falsely registering the birth. •

Lawyer Leatham said he desired a .statement by the accused m regard to the matter to he placed on the depositions, so she was sworn, and then told the Court of her intimacy with Sayers 1 and its consequences. She, couldn't- say the exact date, or the exact month m -which the chiM, was born (strange for a mother !). Sayers had* promised to marry her on various occasions,, and after • it was born she registered it under hia instructions. She knew nothing about the business : at all. : .She just did' what she was told— saying they were married at the Rotheram cliuich, etc. ; she did all this because she didn't want her people to know about it. Asked Savers when hewas going , to marry her m reality, and he put her off from time to time. In a, month or so sh& discovered, that ... , THE RASCAL ,WAS MARRIED already ; then he disappeared. The accused pleaded guilty to the charge, and was remanded to the Supreme' Court for sentenos. Counsel j asked that she be released on her own recognisances,, and Magistrate Day acquiesced, but said she must report herself to the St. Alban's police at 10 o'clock every morning, Sergeant Norwood asked that it be made night time, as the steamer left m the evening and people so dealt, with got away. He suggested 10 p.m.,- but this was regarded as too late ; the last train to Lyttelton left at 5.45 p.m., and 6.30 was the time fixed!