AN OUTBURST OF BLANKY.

NZ Truth, Issue 198, 3 April 1909, Page 6

AN OUTBURST OF BLANKY.

Ethel Cousins' Character Assailed.

The lapse 'of a showily-dressed Cbristchurch lady named Ethel Cousins, is hard to • account for, unless we recollect that Ethel is a woman. She pleaded guilty. of using obscene language at Sydenhairf, or Lawyer Leatham (lid so for her, although Ethel would persist m poking an indiscreet oar into the proceedings from, time to time. Counsel explained that she was a married woman living with hubby at Addington, and had been, to the pictures on the night m question, when three young men, brothers j-*' made -an indecent proposal to her. She was virtuously indignant, and during A STRENUOUS DEFENCE OF HER ; CHARACTER, t made use of the obscene expressions complained of, which came the more readily from her ruby lips perhaps, because she had been m trouble before. Her husband was a cab proprietor. There were not many people about, and no trouble would have arisen had not the young* fellows made a suggestion concerning beer. Sub-Inspector McGrath said that, on the contrary, there was a number of people about at the time, and the offence was most regrettable on that account. There were twelve previous convictions recorded against Ethel, some of them for purple blanky, and Magistrate Bay' authorised Government to relieve her of £1 and costs, m default seven days m Ned's correctional hell. Ethel was murmuring nothing m particular throughout, the hearing, and said, "Thank you" haughtily at the close/