A PRETTY CAD.

NZ Truth, Issue 93, 30 March 1907, Page 6

A PRETTY CAD.

Wants to Defend His "Character."

There "is a low rascal m Christchurch who wants a few remains made about Mm. He has for a long time past been annoying three sisters who live m St. Albans with his pestiferous attentions, and -two o ! f the three of them are getting heartily sick of it. These gkls "bacheiorise" on their 'own; one is a married woman living apart from her husband, who pays her so much a week, according to an order of the Court. However-^ though separated, ,the pair are very friendly, and he calls at the house frequently to see .how s his son is getting on. One of the sisters has been a trifle sweet on the low brute who is the subject of this article and he is taking every advantage of the fact. At any rate . he is continually calling at the place, and .- making himself obnoxious to the othtr inmates by assuming an aiir, o£ p'roprdetarsh ; ip— coinstiitutiiiig himself boss and acting m an offensive manner generally. There is a good deal of furniture m that house and this cad's idea is to marry, the girl and collar the whole lotv, He doesn't appear %o be able to buy- any furniture himself, because he is too lazy to do any graft. He has been living on his old" man for the last eighteen months, and makes out to these young women that he represents;somemysterious firm or other;— a mythical firm" apparently— but what sort of toil he performs seems (to be quite undefined. He is & blustering, bullying braggart— an unohivalrous cad, a coot of the lowest kind, a cadger that the town could -very well afford to do without. Quite recently one of the sisters spoke m very disrespectful terms about him to someone, and the fact came to his knowledge, so he wrote to her an uargraonma'bical letter threatening an action for slander "to clear his character" (his character!) unless retraction was made by a^ certain day m- the columns of the two Christchurch morning papers.; The alleged slander related to his dirty misconduct .with her sistdr, -and the fellow intimated - that he wouldn't accept any written, apology. It would have to be through the 7 press. He went on to say : "I also warne you not to put . yourself to .any trouble calling on me, I or mine; wslln't give you a hearing on^ this ; 'su>bj#?t. ; I have already, had my maped out, and intend to act accordin to justice." The blackguard should buy a dictionary. But the coot also sent a letter to a respectable woman living m the same street, also mentioning slander,' and next day he sent a letter to the husband giving "legal notis" of his intention to proceed. What the husband did doesn't seem very clear, but what he should have done is pretty obvious. ,A cowhiding or two would have done- him no I harm, and even if he sued the aggressor for assault it would^ '•' do a great deal of good, as the hfearing would have shown him up •m his true colors, and more about the cuss would have been printed than appears here. But even after the vite coward wrote the letters he called at the house of the girls, and kicked up such a pother that all three went into hysterics. They should have got someone to go for the police, and had him warned away as an unmitigated nuisance. But nothing of that kind happened, unfortunately, and the low brute continued to revise the trio until they were m a bad way. They shouldn't have anything to do with him, that's all about it, and if the girl is seriously thinking of marrying the rascal, well she knows what to expect after marriage.