A CHOW'S CONSORT.

NZ Truth, Issue 160, 11 July 1908, Page 6

A CHOW'S CONSORT.

Whit <# White Wonwii Can Come To.

When a woman .becomes a Chow's moil itejs, doubtful if can sink lower m the sMal scale, J theT leprous heathen toeing the ooze and'jlregs m the moral cesspit, and it was about up to .the police to rescue fellies Ballaritine, of Ohristchurch, from the horrible life' she had mapped out, .for herself. The lydy, was charged m the Police Court recently' with being a rogue and a vagabond! hawing .^previously passed {through the "idle aiid disorderly" stage. asked for a plea, Nellie, W'is>afihe, big, strapping lump of a Btl*.d tot m&NLlmk

thy - New Zealand babies, remarked : "N ot guilty, your Worships. I was' staying, at my fathetfs" place --wl I went .to ., Kaikoura land came back a week ago. I've been i staying with friends at Lyttelton since then. 1 ' ' ■ ' / Peeler Beard intimated that he had arrested the young woman at' 6.15 on the previous evening m consequence" of her sinful conduct. She had ' been Visiting the house of a yellow brute m Sydenham ; had •■ slept there ; and did reproachful things with men by ■''night for five bob and upwards. She had been keeping out of the road of the poilfce, who were aware that she did no work. .

Tie Clerk, to Nell,:' Have you any questions to ask ?— l. 'have no * heen a * *?} c Chinaman's' place for a fortnight. I haye only been back from. Kaikoura a week. Sergeant Remer said he had known Nellie fop five 1 or six^yearsi? She k ;"■ WAS -A' COMMON; PROSTITUTE, and had gijven a lot 'of' trouble m the Sydenham distoct during the last twelve .months. She' was. m tlie habit of accost: ing irresponsible" men who 'had'disregarded Tommy Taylor's passionate advice, and tempted "them to sin for ' a consideration while m a state of beer. In January last she was living with the 1 " Y-ello^r Peril at Sydenhani; then tfie ;law is^epped m and incarcerated , her ' for a period of . , three months iri Cleary's verminous, hell. Lately ■virtuous - male.' person hadvbeen shocked at the i improper proposals made by Nellie, under' 'cpyer of darkness and gave heir away to the police, who already knew that she slept occasionally with the Mongol already, mentioned. -That slant-eyed-son of a w/inter' cabbage had beeri prosecnted shprtily after Nell's previous disaster; but he gnnricd '.dnscrutably at the Bench, which vrained him) ' severely, not \g harb'br such persons again, and the brute promised, with. 4 meek self-abnegation. ! VVhen Neil called round recently, however, to be debauched, Ah .Sin - debauched her with the utmost cheerfulness .and enjoyment. There, was a consider able*-, confer 4; ence between the J.P.'si Missionef Smaill' ,and the Clerk, -then the last-named asked': "Are you willing to go into, the : Samaritan Home?" Nell replied ;wearily, "I will go to .the Home sooner than go to gaol." Thereupon the .woman's term at ttie institution was fixed at. .12. months, .failing which the Lyttelton shepl; v \?ill ,ppenits gates to her." 'The 1 - GhoW' is still' at large.; . ;."■"■•''. '?''-'\--' •". :■. „