SCOUNDRELLY SEDUCER.

NZ Truth, Issue 90, 9 March 1907, Page 6

SCOUNDRELLY SEDUCER.

Pretty Susie Prime's Pitiful Belief m a Pornic Prowler's Promise, "It is well to be off with the old love before you get on with the new" is an old saying tha,t has struck iriahy a. man hard, and made him repent, and utter many vain sregrets, and pass sleepless nights and what not. But men ,arc fools ever where love is concerned, and the experience of others teaches them nothing. An individual who is suffering poignatit regaret for his past actions m regard to females is one John Joseph Ryan, of Christchurch, who is at present up,. to his neck m trouble. A few years ago- Ryan fell m with Miss Susie Prime, at Christchurch, and he made love to her m the good old'way r She-was ;■';■; , A. PRIME GIRL' .was Brime's Susie/ and. although, she knew het way/ about she at ; -length submitted to the' : fellow's blandishments and he debauched her. As usual, it was after the : usual promise had been made; unfortunately the promise. , is looked upon J . as ' a, . good bait.-.: for seduction by unscrupulous scoyndrels avli6 rarely have any. idea of. 'marrying the girl at all. But the trusting female, who stakes her chastity on^^'tfiUfilmeht of'the. given word, aU^rbo: often falls' m. And • that was >what happened m the; case of.pbor Susie Prime. She became.ehciente, and m Hlue course gave birth .to a female child. By this ,THE SCOUNDRELLY SEDUCER (thought lie had. better do a scoot, ariduhe disappeared. AS he failed to corne^ up i)o time and; do the •' 'right thing by the girl, or make provision for : his .unfortunate' ille&itima.te a warrant was issued for his ■arrest. iThat was over fourteen months -.ago, , and the police .have fceen looking for him ever since; TUey couldn't get-on his trail nohow. Where Ryan got to •immediately after he left Christchurch m his rear isn't known. ,but he: eventually ', i BLEW INTO TAIHAPE, , ; v'f ,that wonderful Maind North, lsland, •town, noted for Its . slush, and wife , deserters, and- : people, who pass under -assumed names. •'• Ryan, , besides toeing a deserter m ode sense, adopt-; ed'an assumed moniker, Harris, to wit; and suot^eded m getting eiijployment'in a . fish -shop. The hou>:s wer;e jlcns, ' but he toiled hard and' soon started to put ; by something of ,the<> two quid a week he received as wages for handling the scaly marine, article; He thought he'd never be copped', m that outlandish spot and punished for his utterly reprehensible conduct; but Jveniesis was dn his track. Mr-"Harr-is" became enam.ored of a local girl whose name doesn't master : she is a plump and .figuratively; pleasing, woman, and' met the. villain's advances with favor. After a brief -courtship HE PROPOSED MARRIAGE and she accepted: A date wjas fixed !fpr the wedding, but > "Harris'Vdidn't engage a house or bv.y furniuire ; his ide 4,. was that,: after, the splicing. they shoiikl clear to Australia. 'He ' ha-fl no" -misgivings for,? .the future ; .his liojtes bright, and he ; spoke jauntily of what was m sjtoare ior them m the way of bliss ahoihappi-. ness across the bright,; blue Tasman Sea. Well, they were married, but what happened, immediately ; afterwards was pathetic— for . the ■ b,ride. Somehow or other bouncing. /"bobby Baker, so often alluded to m 'ffruth'' got an inkling of the real identity of.. " awl on looking 'up . the Police "Gazette" discovered^ that •Ryan was "wanted" m Christchurch. -So he interviewed the gen(tJenian., who bitterly rdortified •to find himself m the lock-iip and all iiis hopes ami .bright dreams \ shattered at a blow. It was . ■ A SAR-LOOKING FISH^)' that faced the bench next day when a remand, to Christchurch was asked for and granted. So the chap^with the alias found himself rudely seyercd from his bride, of a day and given a long journey m -quite a different direction to that which lieha'dmapj>ed out. When brought fccsf ore Magistrate Bishop at, Christchirch,^ Ryan: was represented .by Mr Malley; who said at the outset that the defendant ADMITTED: PATERNITY ... : .; of .the illegitimate, and that he had made no i"' provision for~lts maintenance. V*' Hunt, who for compbinant, briefly outlined the; facts and said that v ßyan had been .'married- a few days before to another womdn. This drew from the Magistrate the remark that a man had no right to marry when he had a .burden of the .present sort m front of him. Allusion was made by Mr Hunt to: the. pleasant trip to ' Australia which had been projected by Mr and ' Mrs Ryan, and then ■ Mr. Bishop adjudged the defendant to be the putative fatho: of Miss Prime's infant and ordered him to pav ; 7s;Gd; a week towards its support. Further, lie was ordered to find security" m £100 that the 'amount will be regularly paid; and to pay £6 6s confine-, ment hxpense^,' anil court . expenses^ ah'd solicitor's fee. Mr Malley. asked for a week's grace m which" 'to find the necessary surety, but opposing counsel demurred. ' and the : beak thought the time too long. Eventually he allowed: the amorous prisoner two days m which to find a friend ,1.6 stand go^tl for him. ■ • ' But how x like Bobby Baker to allow a girl's life to be 1 wrecked I>e- j I6i? stepping m and arresting this, heartless destroyer of female happiness. ■ ':■'"'.'■ '■