OUT ON BAIL.

NZ Truth, Issue 114, 24 August 1907, Page 6

OUT ON BAIL.

In on the Bondsmen. , If a; 1 man .goes bail for a fellow out of compassion, or. as a matter of friendship, or because he can't help it, the only thing he can do to avoid getting slipped up is to sleep him. And even then he might get done m when he wasn't looking. There are two lamenting bondsmen named Phillips and Parker m .Christclmrch . just .now. The .man they backed to face the starter, or the music, or the judge, didn't turn up. He yTas scratched for the engagement. Arthur Wellesley Nelson (is the joint who is supposed to have committed suicide by taking poison, and then casting himself over .the rocks at Sumner. He left a note to say so, and a coat and vest and watch to second the motion. But no body has been found, and people* are wondering if ho really did leap into eternity instead of undergoing another long' period m quod. He was charge*! with selling drugs for the procuration of abortion. The man who bought the. drugs was a policeman, but the woman alleged to be m trouble WAS A MYTHICAL" PERSON.' However, Nelson tell into the soup, and was ordered to stand his trial. The last sentence he did was five years for a similar* offence. He fcad a penchant for that sort of thing, and had a little shop- of a sort m Victoria-street, which, he ran ufed«r the name of Wellesley. What his real name . was nobody was aware. Stated he has spoken of Siavi&g hf*d adventures m Africa, coming f;om there some years ago. iNfjlson >was a good bicycle, trick rider, f^jid did some sensational feats sit the late exhibition for the Wontlerlaud people. The fellow was *tW/fed, and- Ju& wife, is. at fiWSfi&t

scrubbing . out a couple of offices for a living. Parker, one of the bondsmen, is.. the coward's father-in-law, and he is petitioning the Justice Department for consideration under the circumstances. Phillips has paid up the amount of his bond.