A TOUGH TART.

NZ Truth, Issue 151, 9 May 1908, Page 6

A TOUGH TART.

The Unspeakableness of Mrs Eden.

A tale of sinfulness is that of Mrs Eden, who has been obtaining employment from , aristocratic persons m Christchurch, while concealing from them the fact that she was canoodling with an-' other woman's husband. The other woman mentioned is Mrs Unwin, wife of a despicable scoundrel named Alfred George Unwin, who three years ago was ordered by Judge Hasclden to pay 15s a week towards the support of his. wife and two children, and a separation order was also granted on the grounds of cruelty. Unwin has picked up with this Eden woman, i a person of indescribable morals, whose i husband left her two years ago and whose two children were taken away from her and placed m a home by the humane arm of the law. Hubby didti'fc find at an Eden with the female, who subsequently lived m drinky Duke-street with a man named Charles Keast, ( a worthless personage who left his own -wife and children to starve, and cleared' away from the police to Wellington, where he drowned himself m the harbor to escape proceedings for maintenance. Mrs Eden was known as Mrs Keast, but when her own two little girls were taken away from her she appeared as Mrs Johnston, and seemed to like variety m the moniker line. She represented herself as a respectable charwoman and took a room on the East Belt, where lazy loafer Unwin used to visit her until the woman was moved on by the (landlord, on the score that she was no better than she ought to be. Her subsequent places of RESIDENCE WERE NUMEROUS -. AND COSTLY, / as the daily paper says of the bridal presents, until she found herself m tbe blushful region of St. Asaph-street, where she "has occupied a small cottage for a period of eighteen months, and her most frequent visitor by day and night is the unmitigated Unwin, whose unfortunate wife' has a hard enough time without hearing of his loathsome conduct from the scandalised neighbors. Moreover, Un-. win escorts the impossible woman to the theatres and similar public amusements and is m other respects behaving m such a reprehensible manner that he has laid himself open to proceedings of a final character should his long-suffering missus invoke the aid. of the law. "Truth" is informed that' witnesses can prove things that this saintly newspaper doesn't desire to mention at the present stage, but will, await developments with the patience of a money-lender about to realise on a mortgaged property. The Eden woman, who is known as the "turky buzzard," re-; presented herself as a pore, hard-working widow, and was employed on and off at the premises of utterly-uttah persons like the Rev. Tait, Dr. Orchard, Mrs Tonycliffe, Mrs Sydney Orchard, and others, who dropped her like an infant parting with a hot potato when they discovered her unpardonable antecedents, and viewed her shocking mode of existence. The ladies of Christchurch are herewith warned against such astonishing characters.