AN ARDENT LOVER.

NZ Truth, Issue 98, 4 May 1907, Page 6

AN ARDENT LOVER.

March Menaces His Mash.

Ardent lovers are occasionally far 100 ardent, and demonstrate their alleged affection m a unique manner. Some of them grow too violently affectionate, and strike terror into the hearts of the bit Gf muslin that they love. Take the case of Loyal C. March, of. Christchurch, who found himself charged with . assault' as the result of his erring ways. He is one of those chaps who won't laVe "i\o ' for an. answer, and K°ts into a hot corner sometimes m consequence. Not long ago he 'picked up with a hit of sliirt named Nellie To o mer, and commenced io make love right away. Sweet Nell hasn't vet rcuhed the a°;e <f. nineteen, but she is as shy as they make 'em. Wlrrii she was ■supposed to go out to s:e friends the walled out with March, and it was a case of I6ve's yovni dream over a^ain. Nellie never told M a ,. and it was until the expiration of three months, that the old woman discovered the liaison. Then she flpw into a passion, and said that tJieir intimacy, musj; cease,- Being a

dutiful daughter Nellie told March | that he must desist from paying, her any more attention. But March STARTED TALKING- HIGH, and threatened her with a revolver two or three times, and later on she' was frightened to go outside the door. One night Nell and her mother went to Fullers', and at 10.30 p.m. March met them, and was told by .the moth?r to do a guy. He again mentioned about • shooting the girl with' a revolver. Not long afterwards the maniac was at the house, and called her out an:l placed his hand upon her shoulder, gnd pulled her round the corner of the house. Whether he wanted to salute her kisser m a chaste- way, or endeavour to influence her against her mother, or what, isn't known, but that was the sort of .assault charge that he had to face at the Stipendiary Magistrate's Court. On being asked if he had pulled her about the sweet young thing replied m the negative; nor did March say c'nything, about a revolver then, or present ore at her person. Further, the damsel averred that she wasn't afraid of him. All she did was to call out to mother, and that dame hurried out to protect her chickling. The S.M. wanted to lmow if that was all the evidence of assault, and he '.dismissed the case on receiving a reply m the afprmative. But Moocher March who 1- nocks around at nights with girls must be more careful.