THE TERRIBLE TRAM-MAN.

NZ Truth, Issue 94, 6 April 1907, Page 8

THE TERRIBLE TRAM-MAN.

A Motorman's Immoral Mix-up.

Gets a Girl m Trouble and Deserts

His Wife and Children.

There must be some sort of a fatal fascination attached to a tram troubadour's uniform, because it is /wonderful hoy/ the soft, sweet, and sometimes silly sex will chase after Mr. Conductor and Mr. Motorman, and the affiliation cases that go into the courts of this colony, not to mention those that don't, are sufficient- to warrant the assertion, that the "ticket-please" man and bhe cove that drives never wants for a bit of skirt, and taken on the whole -ip is no wonder that so many thousand young and lusty, bucks want to get on the trams, .Perhaps the poor and often played-out conductor and motorman is not to blame. He is chased pretty, well by the dear girls, who themselves are not chaste, ahd don't need to be chased to discover that they are not chaste. Chaste girls are often chased 'm this sinful town, but that is a different matter. It seems impossible for any young man to be chaste once he dons a tramway uniform, and it is because he is. chased by girls that he has such .a rollicking good time. There is, however, \ one individual lately employed 6ii the Wellington trains, who is m a devil of a mess. In fact, he has set out for fresh fields, otherwise he might have been sent to another field, where the work is damned hard, and where 'women cease from troubling, and where THE WICKED ARE NOT AT REST, This individual is a motorman, a" married man, with a wife now m a state, .of > pregnancy, , apd rearing two other young children. . This Dion Juan seems to haye had a good innings while he lasted, but he plucked forbidden friiit, and the consequence is he has got a girl, ■un-dar the ,'age of consent, m trouble, and fearing the displeasure of the law he has levanted, leaving his victim m her sad and sorry plight, and what is still worse this seducer of maiden "innocence" is a dirty dog of a wife deserter, and has left his poor and sorrowful wife and little children to practically starve. This paper does not know whether the police have the matter m hand, but at any rate no difficulty should be experienced m identifying him, as his lecherous and cowardly escapades have been the principal theme of conversation m tramway circles since the concupiscent cur cleared out. Moreover, it is , averred that he has made : tracks for Sydney, and it is to be trusted that the police will not allow the matter 'to drop, hut will adopt every measure to bring the motorman hack, and make him face the music. A man capable of clearing away to save his own skin, ahd leaving those dependent on him at the cruel mercy of the cold and uncharitable, world, is not a man ; he is a miscreant of a most miserable kind.