A HARD CASE.

NZ Truth, Issue 99, 11 May 1907, Page 6

A HARD CASE.

Pleads' for Another Chance.

A" buxom woman of loose moralsvery loOse morals indeed,— Mary Joyce, was an occupant of Black Maria at Christchurch t'other day and her ride was undertaken m a very unpleasant frame of mind. She is a tired .-trollop is Mary; her history is a pathetic;' one. Her aimless life has for years .bleep sugared with sin, and her existence has been the usual precarious ;oue .of / 'the wornaii- of the town. The whisky bottle has' an overpowering influence on the wom«n, and when she is m that very undesirable condition there is no refinement abOut her conversation, m faether azure '.languajge outrages all decency. Herself and another prostitute took a ride m the tram to Papanui the other afternoon. Mary was talkatively drunk, and the serious", sober-minded passengers wondered' what they had -struck. There was a dispute over some trivial thing or another and Mary antdulged m some of the most obscene language that it is possible for a person to. use. It was simply horrible. Constable Mc-' Lean appeared on the scene and took the vrle-tongued harridan to the lock-< up. But that • little pokey place is no place for. ftvamen . prisoners so a oab was telephoned f for, and the ride to the police sta-iaon m town cost a crown. At Court next day jolly Joyce pleaded guilty to both 'drunkenness aand obscene language m tbe low, purring, tone of a • cat after tea, andmade the good old reef vest for another chance. But her list of chances take some ink tp write ; she has been on the battle for years and the beak didn't hearken to her plea, merely remarking that ©he had been up for the same thing on several occasions. So he sent, her up for six months. Then she entered the Government carrifcige and was whisked away to a beerless atmosphere.