MARTHA ON THE MAKE.

NZ Truth, Issue 125, 9 November 1907, Page 4

MARTHA ON THE MAKE.

A CHOW'S CONCUBINE UP AGAINST IT.

Jarman Goes on the Jag. And is Taken Dowh. If the craving for alcohol were abolished, and the lustful propensities of man were extinguished, our criminal calendar would shrink to a remarkab'ce extent. These two pleasant amusements appear to have been responsive for the disappea rance of £4 18s, the property of William Oscar Jarm-an, a seaman on the Stormbird, who sampled wine and women on Friday v.eek, with disastrous results. William Oscar was with two mates, when he met Martha McManus m Tory-street, at 8.30 m the evening. The quartette adjourned to the nearest pub and liqiuored up. Jarman acknowledged having imbibed two quenchers at this hostelry, wVn the lydy intimated that she wanted to word him. Leaving his mates m the drinkery, Oscar departed with Martha, and after some conversation the pair entered a Chow's shop at the corner of Taranaki and Haining streets, where the man bought a shilling's worth of apples. The change received from the Mongol seemed to have a lot of silver m it, and as the heathen put it down m front of Martha, that fascinating crda^turc started 'to count it with an expression of solicitude. The inconvenience of carrying so much silver about at one time was remarked upon, then the woman gathered up . the money, and they proceeded to a sec-ond-hand shop, where a pounds' worth of silver was exchanged for a sovereign. They then proceeded to the Royal Tiger I T| otel, where Martha paid for two drinks, and ob'taincd another sovereign for the equivalent m silver. Oscar didn't appear to make any strenuous endeavors to recover his coin at any time, and when Martha went up Haining-street to call on a friend, named Mary, the victim permitted her to disappear with the utmost trustfulness. Martha observed that she wouldn't be long, and William Oscar accepted the statement with a pleased expression on his countenance. When, however, HIS LADY-LOVE DIDN'T REAPPEAR under twenty minutes or so, he knocked at the door through which she had passed .and was firmly assured that the female he was after had not come m there. Thoroughly alarmed, lie sought and found a policeman and returned to the house, where Martha was discovered all right, but she swore that she hadn't been out that night, had never seen her discarded swain before, and manifested considerable astonishment when charged with holding the cash, which was not visible and hasn't since foeen recovered by the duped male person. In reply to Mr Jackson, for the defence, Jarman said they were not refused drink at the first hotel visited because they were drunk. The people merely refused to place a private parlour at their disposal,' and told them to breast the bar, like ordinary mortals. At the Victoria Hotel, they were more considerate, and drinks were obtained with due respectability. When Jarman left with the woman, he certainly did make an immoral proposal to her and offered her £1 for the concession, but she didn't refuse to meet his advances. In fact, she said it would be all right, and as he had nothing less than a fiver on him they adjourned to the Chow's to get change! He had got outside of five porter gaffs that evening, and was quite sober. He didn't suggest later that they should go into a place m Tory-street lor purposes of sin, Martha to receive a consideration of 30s, or 10s advance on the original contract. Martha didn't reject his loving proposals with scorn or indignation ; she just stuck to the capital. Re-examined by Sub-Inspector O'Donovan, Jarman said the change received from the yellow agony was one sovereign, two half-sovereigns, and the rest m silver. Ah Wong, fruiterer, the undesirable alien aforesaid, ' BLEW OUT A MATCH with great enthusiasm m the wit-ness-box, and testified that the change was three sovereigns and £1 19s m silver. There was evidently a discrepancy sonuewnere. An aged second-hand dealer named Parry said he recollected giving the woman a sovereign for £1 worth of silver, and Frank Dakin, of the Royal Tiger, remembered passing over a sovereign m exchange for its equivalent m silver. The lost angel had silver and gold coins m her hand at the time. When Martha was arrested by Detective Kemp, sire swore she hadn't obtained sovereigns for silver at either the Chows or the Royal Tiger. The only money m her possession that day was half-a-crown, which she borrowed from a Chinaman. Martha, who is one of the degraded creatures that Chow advocates are responsible for — the mistress of a Chinaman— stated that her natural protector was a Momgol named Ah Chee, with whom she was living. She met Jarman and two mates, one of whom was a Norwegian, down Tory-street, and the crowd adjourned to the Royal Tiger, where drinks were not obtained, as they refused to breast the vulgar bar. They went on to the Victoria, where they had a tarpaulin muster, Martha contributing a shilling to the beer pool. After a couple of drinks she left the building with Jarman, who offered to give her £1 if she would go with him to a house m Torystreet for a guilty purpose. He also wanted to buy a bottle of whisky. The lydy RESISTED THE TEMPTATION, and at Jarman's request, they proceeded to the Chow's, already mentioned, to obtain change for a fiver, which the young man nourished before her, presumably to weaken her chaste resolution. The woman got the fiver cashed at the request of Jarman, and received four sovereigns and 19s change, which she handed to the man at the door. For some reason or other, Jarman wanted a pound's worth of silver, and the accommodating female got