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NZ Truth, Issue 135, 18 January 1908, Page 4

It will be recollected that a. young man named Walter Dnrkip some time ago lifted a wad of notes from a coat hanging m a Wellington billiard room and retired from public view for the space of eighteen months, during which period be was riven plenty of bodily exercise. The owner of the wad was a newchum from the Old Dart, and when Durkin m>t bis fingers on tbe weaH.h he went out on a glorious bust. Champagne flowed like water and three accommodating wantons were, guests of the evening. Durkin. who had been working- as canvasser for Lamming and Co.. jewellers, did bis term all two quickly and came back from bis tree-planting count rv seat at Waiotapu on January 6. He had scarcely time to look round when he found a summons nlf>ntcd m his fistcharging bim with fi'Mng to.maintain his illegitimate child. As no wages are paid on the Terrace or m Waiotapu, Durkin hadn't enough to secure his own maintenance, but hoped to get on with his old firm. It appears that Ellen Montgomery, mother of the child, is dead and the undesired infant is sheltering m a receiving home. Durkin admitted paternity, otherwise it might have been bard to prove it. Magistrate Riddell adjudged him putative father of the kid and ordered him to pay 5s a week towards the support ot his unwarranted family of one r