AN UNHAPPY COUPLE.

NZ Truth, Issue 142, 7 March 1908, Page 4

AN UNHAPPY COUPLE.

LAMENTABLE LAPSES OF THE LANES. Prohib. Order Against Man and Wife. Lane Says the Doctor Prescribed Stoat. The unique spectacle ol husband and wife charged at one time with being fit subjects for a prohibition order was witnessed m Wellington S.M. Court this week. Elizabeth Lane has of late given way to the hops habit _to an unconscionable extent, and as there were two young children, Thomas, her husband sought to have her prohibited. Unfortunate-% ly*Lane himself, who earns £2 5s a week m the Botanical Gardens, is rather fond of' his beer, and acknow*. lenged to the police subsequently that he was m the habit of taking swankey home when suffering from ulceration of the stomach, stout being ordered by the doctor for that complaint. Lane didn't mention the name of the mecjico, who ought to buildup a large practice on popular prescriptions of that sort. It appears that the snickering couple pay a ; cormorant landlord 10s 6d a week rent for a room at No. 6, Ingestre-street, and husband, wife and two children pig together m this enclosure. Lane recently took a' considerable quantity of beea: lor his ulceration and Mrs Lane also drank the medicine out of sympathy, so that her condition became reprehensible, and- at midniehfc Lane rushed up to Mount Cook Police Station to take out a prohibition order against her. The man was wild-eyed and hiccoughed! considerably from ulceration and beer, and giant Sergeant Rutledge fixed him with the cold, OFFICIAL EYE OF DISPLEASURE. : ; while he remarked, "If your wife is drunk that is no reason why you should get drunk, too." It occurred to the police that Lane's was just the sort of nam?, that would look well on an order. When Bobby Wright' arrived at the swipe-ruined home, he .found Mrs Lane sitting 'on the bed muddled with ulceration draught and nursing a young child. Lane > had. been chastising her for her intemperance and other things, and the blood from face injuries trickled' down her not unbeautiful dial on to the youngster, who was baptised m blood and beer. Returning to the house with, another cop, they found Lane nursing a second kid 1 , aged about 2,- and looking as if he didn't care whether Webb won the Newmarket Handicap or appropriated the Pole Jump. Wright took charge of the nippec and conveyed it to the Police Station. Yet another visit found Lane holding his youngest Offspring th« w^rong way up and that kid was also rescued. Prohibition orders were applied f or against both subsequently m the S.M. Court, and the pair • entered the hall of justice, each bearing a howling token of their unhappy union. Th» woman consented to the order, but Lane, who had already been looking on, the pewter when it was full, resisted the puerile police attempt to deprive him of his beer. The .woman, was submissive and remarked, anxiously, that he had always been, a good; husband to her. Likewise she Gti«4 bitterly, while THE KIDS WEPT IN CONCERT. and a discordant trio merged inty an inharmonious quartette when Lan* snapped out bass intersections. ' Lane is a beer-brutalised mongrel, who besmirched the good-fame of his weak but virtuous missus m an attempt to save his own hide. Be alleged that the woman drank to excess, and even though he stopned het . money she weiirt out and obtaineil purge of sonic description by questionable means. "My wife made tW room a brothel," be said, Here massive Sergeant Kutledjr* informed the Bench that he liiwi to&fle inquiries ink) L^e's :i]]^)at.i<stos, winch that beer-laden person had b«cti dinning into the official* ears at Mt. Cook, and discovered that tlrere- was no foundations for the accusations. Dr.. MeArthur -issued, orders, turn ins* both husband and wife. w«ho 'W<"U suffer from involuntarr dryness" for a period of twelve month's, untess "Utey pro to a pub where th.Dv?i6.&ot V*kh«u