BOLD BAD BUNG.

NZ Truth, Issue 104, 15 June 1907, Page 6

BOLD BAD BUNG.

(Say Larks with the Barmaids, j

'{ according to all accounts theyliave & couple of choice hotel-keepers at , ILyttelton, men against whom charges of immorality have been openly; made |jy the police; foul charges that jaave, of course, . been denied, otherwise' they would lose their licenses at short notice. A iotelkeeper is supposed to- protect all his servants, .especially! the females ; and if a barmaid is grossly insulted hy r some Sow, lewd,, drimky lout, that- man should go fight oat, and never he permitted oaclc again.- The landlord should be an autocrat that way; tout to make imiproper proposals to girls— whether .his wife is on ' the ibremis.es or not— is" right out of reason. Barmaids have quite enough to put'" -Tip with from canting snuffieibusters, and women who envy them Itheir position, without having intlecent suggestions made to them by their bosses. The two Lyttelton iblokes againsv whom evidence was *iworn the othor day are none other rthanß. J. Henry, of the Mitre Hotel, who is, as well-known there as fthe lighthouse,- and J. F., Suinnell, who "runs the* Lyttelton grogshop y 'And those statements were as string as they make 'em. Magistrate Bishop, presided, and Sup-Inspector Dwyer called evidence to show that Henry wasn't a fit and proper person to run c ■toozc shop. Annie ■Rutherford, -barvnaid. it appears, • only stopned at the Mitre. four or five days. She had had quite enough of it for Henry (so she testified) grossly insulted her one night after eleven o'clock. She was m the bar at the .time, and hb -was boozed. She walked out of the bar, and then more Wproper language followed— most indecent., m fact. Mrs. Henry appear- ' ed ton the scene , at. this stagey and • .the girl made a holt for her room. 'But she wasn't safe even there. This fellow Henry, dived upstairs and demanded admission., The door was locked, of course, but that didn't prevent him (a, big bloke) from , STAVING THE PANEL 1 IN. , He found himself not strong enough to burst the door m altogether. .What he was going to do when he got there is only known to himself. ' Ohas. Agar went to th© gill's assistance at the instance of Mrs Henry.: He discovered Henry trying to open the barmaid's door ; he wasn't quite drunk at the time, was Henry, but toe was. excited. Eventuallyj Miss Rutherford was brutally.' put but of it he pub at a .late hour- at nightsometime before midnight—ami was itaiento another hotel wliere sho was given shelter. Now, this. ,girl said that Henry was never sojier, and ithat on the first night she was there he had thrashed his wife. Such filthy . language as he had spoken to her she • had never- heard before. It was posi\tively beastly. She had taken a civil action., against him* bni he had paid up out of court, aud; tenidered a most abject apology. iYet m face of this most scandalous action on the part •of this man Henry, Lawyer T. D. Russell did; a bat of special pleading i He . said , that •^assuming! tiie alJegations were" proved' he submitted that they wouldn't' bring the licensee k within 81 of the Licensing f Acti under which objection might be taken if the applicant was. of bad fame or character, or of drunken habits. Were that not shown the Bench had no power to withdraw his licence. \n act of immorality 'didn't make a Wcensee a person of bad' fame amd character. Well, it would be interesting to know .what does, Mr. Russell. Then / COUNSEL CLIMBED 1 DOWN, snd said he would ask for 21 days "ia which. a new. licensee could be obr itained were" the renewal refused. He . .wasn't going to combat the facts, or put the young lady ia the b6x to repeat what, she had already told the police. But if Russell; didn't do so the police did, and M7ss Rutherford described the conduct she had been subjected to. Charlie Rumph was ouly barman two weeks and four days, and had to go out of the pub at* 11.30 p.m. after a row with Henry ov,er some small account on the s>a\te.- Rumph gave evidence as to Henry's fooozing habits, and said;he:was "half-^nixed" most of ■ his time. "He had a), dozen drinks within, three Jhpursj" said Rumph, but what they, were he* didn't ' say. The • information was further advanced, .though, that he hail been - drinking vfery heavily,, the 'following , morning., IDvi'denee was called by Mr Russell to show that:' the- lijpenisee • was a very sober man. 'A chapjiam?d Noah €!©s;; admitted \.that - ac had a of cards . m she commercial/ room on the. Skwjath. A amrhber of others .swore frith- much emphasis, and with' great enthusiasms thrat Henry was as; sobsr, usually, a« a finger ale pjro(uibi- v ■fcionist, a faf,t which was" sworn 1 .to; by Constable Wootton with great i7io- \ lence. And a>. constable, ought \ ,to > know. ■•.;-;'••,;, ■•■■ ,-\ „;, : ,.;-■'•;.■ ) jHenry made/^ mistake m- getting into the box. - He frankly atimrtrted that he knew nothing of the incidjent m auestion ; 'he may have been /excited, which 'orobafaly means that j he drunk— pr anything. Howe Per, ;;most of iiis servants had < ihad trouble . w-it/JT him, and two <of ■c'them had cast him a tenner . a--1 oiece.' Henry, should frankly giv& aip ■ pub-keeping. ..Such' an exciting ipmsfcime fits ilf mth his 'messed icobstitution: IVeak Bishop told his nibs that the language usscl was attoufc aas toad as a 'mam could use to a, woman. The- elected members of, the committee, mr ::t improperly-- "dr/cideril to grant a renewal of tne 1 * license .} Magistrate # ishop , said hedidnft associate himsr'elf with the decision, and ithe catfe ten ninated. The other'members of ti is beautiful comratitstee are, j. Ric/ lanlson, Peter Fender ,(«xPolice Insp ector of Wellington*), S- W-, Mitchell, V /.. H, R< Dale, and ' <$.- Cnok. ; ' '. Well, tb'is. crowd was out for'thV 'day. The next case was . Burundi and fTHERF; W#S 'ANOTHER BARMAID CONCERNED"; ,Tliese laL'ie/3 reem to be more prized : at seaport towns than elsewhere; •However, It was asserted by the ♦police that ; wlsile Mrs. Bunnell was ais^ay m .fl.ustmlia the mice began to play: aa/i mm ibe jele'Vll

to pay. Of course, it was denied,* but at all events it was wickedly asserted that Bunnell had been having more than full charge of the barmaid (Miss Simpson) and he tried his wiles m another direction. He wanted not only the girl of the glass, but also the cook, one Lizzie O'Connor. And Liza refused Iris improper proposals, and did a mike from the house, but she was able to tell the committee something about the boss and the barmaid, who is said to have given birth to a child to Bunnell, but this is absolutely denied by both the licensee and the barmaid. Therp must have been GAY DOINGS IN THAT SHANTY. Annie Martin, mother-in-law of Bunnell, testified that- she had seen familiarity between Bunnell and Miss Simpson, but no misconduct. One lqads to the other, but as they denied it absolutely,, the committee decided to grant the renewal. The nipther-in-iaw made a somewhat'different statement to 'Tec Livingstone Ito what she stated m the box, and he swore so, but the Bench had made up its mind, and Bunnell is free to soar iai the wilds of barmaids' blushes some more. .