CONTRARY MARY!

NZ Truth, Issue 12, 16 November 1907, Page 6

CONTRARY MARY!

A Gentle Christchurch Creature.

The McKegney sisters have made themselves notorious m most parts of the colony. When they step on to the Police Court stage they prove themselves star performers, and oth-; ers on the same plane may take a back seat. They are pets." The police don't care to run them m ; they kick up such a hell of a row •; so much so that passers-by would think that they were being murdered. It ] is only- the youthful policeman who j takes on the task nowadays ; but he doesn't care to do .it a second time. .Experience teaches him a lot. The other night someone ran Mary McKegney m at Christchurch for being mentally deficient owing to hirer, and if that woman didn't give trbuble\no female ever did. She; "Was hauled to Court -next morning ih the usual course of business, the black .maria being requisitioned for that purpose. But she wouldn't leave the/ vehicle on arrival at the Temple of Themis, so SHE WAS CARRIEp IN, one coiistafc'le holding her "by the head and another by the legs, and the disturbance the lady, created was sufficient to liven up the red .tape department of the Government. - Her yelling appeared to be quite, sincere, too . She meant all she said . On being bought from the *ante-room screaming," the./policeman who fondled her lovingly couldn't get her into the dock. She hung back like a stiff-' uri at Riccarton. There' : were several supervisors who gave instructions as to how. Mary should he got into the horse-box, but it was, all ; ,of no avail, ahd the Magistrate; directed that she should stand where she was; Then he gave her a -week m ttuod and adjourned a case of breaking a prohib. order until later ori. Mary would al-. most break her neck to -get a -nip at any time. -