A BURST-UP BROTHEL.

NZ Truth, Issue 158, 27 June 1908, Page 5

A BURST-UP BROTHEL.

THE ANGELS OF ANGLESEA-

STREEV.

What Becomes of the Tell-tale

Diary?

A Profitable Business Blown Oat.

Before the Auckland Bench the other day. what were described as "two very smartly dressed and modish (not modest) looking women" named Lily Young, alias Lamb and Ethel May Goodison, appeared, charged with 'quite a number of breaches of our moral laws. Lil is the elder of the pair and her lot was that she had kept a brothel m Anjdeseastreet, and fearing that that .charge might not be made good, the police sought to have her put away as an idle and disorderly person, habitually consorting with undesirable persons. Tho other tart, lithe!, was arraigned on a charge of assisting m the management of the drum, and she was further charged with beine; an idle and disorderly person and associating with individuals no better than they should be. Angelse'a-streefi is a respectable locality, but lately it Rot a rude shock and reputable folk m the vicinity of the "drum" under notice, were m the unfortunate position of having their slumbers disturbed by male persons who had either forgotten Lil's number or whose instructions re the red lamp, etc... etc., had got mixed up with gallons of beer and other fiery waters. Consequently, the neighbors bucked, and Lil's house, which otherwise, was conducted as "respectably" as a "respectable" brothel ought to be, quickly fell into police disfavor, and SEVERAL YOUNG AND BLUSHING BOBBIES were told off to keep an eye on the blushful premises. Moreover, m court it was sworn .to that Lil's abode c( lust and licentiousness, or love and lust, or whatever it is respectable papers call drums, was luxuriously furnished, and the policemen who gave evidence told some rather rosy-hued stories of sin, etc.. but as the court was cleared no one's morals were liable to be tarnished. Such a maison rf joy, was not bound to last lone once the neighbors got a snout on it, and m the circumstances related the neighbors are not to be blamed. To cut the sad story short, the police made a brutal raid on the ranch, and the result was such that more than one .individual m Auckland shivered m his sox and still shivers because Lil conducted her trame on very business-like lines. A dairy was kept, showing who came and s who went and the figure's they paid were all set down m cold, callous indifference to any possible contigencies such as police raids, confiscation, inquisitive policemen, and the still more impudent and searching eyes' of a newspaper man. win-, deed, one policeman started to reel of! the receipts, and Lawyer Singer, who defended, objeqted. that if the contents were to be divulged, the diary would have to be forthcoming. "If we were to produce that diary," said Sergt. Heridry, who was prosecuting, "material enough would be furnished for the Divorce Court for months to come." His Worship : Well, we don't want to BREAK UP HAPPY HOMES. Lawyer Singer, however, uersistedi and rightly 'or wrongly, wanted the diary produced, and he stood a good chance of having it produced too, only Lil, who wasn't too keen on its production, insisted that it shouldn't be produced and Singer had to subside; thousrh what would have happened l\ad Lil been billing is damned hard to say. Suffice it, however, to remark that t!ie:e voiild have been Hades to. gambol. • The constable', one Murphy, fog m the : faoii-that once Lil went m for the Broth,-, el-keeping biz. on luxurious 1 lines. The earnings- had been about £37 10s per week, an indipation of the roaring trade she must hive carried on. , It was not denied that Lily Young was a frolicsome creature, and that she was everything that the diary, if produced, would have proved her to be. Anyhow, as far as the other woman was concerned, it was contended that the part she played m the drum consisted only m obtaining a room m the Angelsea-street ranch, and that she was boarding m the house with a 7oung man for one ■^ r eek only; The Beak determined, m the absence of direct evidence . of assisting m the management, to give Ethel one more chance, or", as the daily prese report it, a chance of rehabilitation. Some fatherly advice was given to her to return to the narrow and joyless path of moral rectitudeand to earn a living respectably, and she was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon.

Lil Youn" however, was not the clean spud. She had a record, having been previously corivicted of theft on which she received probation.- His Worship said she had deliberately carried on an establishment that was against the statutes of the colony, and demoralising to the whole 1 community- Her chances had been exhausted, and though Mr Singer urged that a fine should be inflicted, his Worship said he had no doubt that out of such a profitable house she would find such a penalty A COMPARATIVELY TRIPLING MATTER. For each charge she was sentenced to three montns' imprisonment, the sentences to be concurrent. Thus was outraged virtue vindicated and a "wicked" woman sent to expiate her immoralities m a common Aaol. Oh, why, oh, why, did not Lily permit the production of her diary. What about the gay sparks who deserted thfeir connubial couches' for the caresses of a concubine ? Why, indeed, wasn't it produced? Auckland ''might have got a shock. And what will become of the diary ? Will the police see to it that it is destroyed?-' Or will Lily. Ret it back when she is released after serving her stretch ? Moreover, what -will Lily do with it ? Will she' want her price for erasing each name? Many Aucklanders wish to God Lily was m for lite. ' . .