MABEL'S MISTAKE.

NZ Truth, Issue 151, 9 May 1908, Page 5

MABEL'S MISTAKE.

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-J_£- v • 'bright, v. nuggety . little damsel '.ifdnfedv Mabel Ingper, „wns prestent"WOzbyi'Mi -&elly at . the --Court levee bßld£,J}£ „Mr. Rifldell, S.M:, "on-Mindav m me ,«a^ing, r balls-of-.Justii:e situated on Qliay, ' Wellihgton. the formal presentation hatfi been made. Mabel that she bad a tale to unfold to Magistrate .Riddell, whiob that august personage,- m aecor<fcnce\ with the usual procedure, considered waS not for the -ears of the .vulgar cr»wd; ,J who lolled, lolloped, and lounged In "____ it nortion of the court set apart 'for- the nufclic, and he accordingly gave , JnstE.llcti9.lls to cfear the Court of all but- authorised p»r»ons. Darling Mabel, haying, gained courage, proceeded to «£_. ate that she was nineteen years of age," and had for -two rears known a young scion named Frank Wilson who was twenty-one years ef »re. and resided m sunny Napier, wh»ie Ihe girleen also lived. Frank had be*n walkins, out with Mabel for two years. and had naid her marked attention— too marked it turned out* as he had forcibly- impressed his mark, m the absence of his signature, on the damsal m a *>-:*-_*.~x __6i denied. ■ About 'April last year Frank and Mabel were m the vicinity of Pert Ahuriri when a certain event banner e'l which resulted »n Mabel diAcOverinu shortly afterwards— Mab'ftl put «_ own tho time of discovery as four months af'enomination—that she was m. what is termed m polite circles, an intoVr-s h>condition. In reply to Mr *»••■••'-■»' M;--bel said that she" informed. Prank of b<-r condition and Frank did not~"cfcnv with. orship. Pressed by the beak. Mi bed admitted having sinned; vbyUfndijflgine m the forbidden fruit, oh two' occasions. When Frank learned of the impression he had made, he STILL CONTINUED. TO WALK OUT with darling Mabel, but that was all. Mabel left sunny Napier m October for Wellington, and - on December 7th she added? to New Zealand's assets by presenting this God's Own Country with a bouncing baby girl, of which she asserted Frank Wilson was the father, and added that no. other person h.a*d plucked the forbidden fruit. Isabel Tweed, Matron, of the Salvarmv Maternity Home, produced a letter which Frank Wilson had written m connection with the case, and m wbich he admitted that he was the father," and offered to contribute, seven shillings and sixpence 'towards the support of his daughter. Mr Kelly stated that Wijsoij had also paid six guineas pxnenses ' incurred m connection with the confinement. He thought, that Wilson was m a position to pay more than he had offered, arid pressed for an order for 7s 6d per ""week. 'His Worship made an order for seven . shillings per • week, with two guineas oosts.