WAR AND WOMEN

NZ Truth, Issue 507, 6 March 1915, Page 4

WAR AND WOMEN

fever of fight fills females] Shooting a Sweetheart A Stabbing Sensation The very earth is breathing blood, Madd'ning the peoplo with its breath, Scorning the land which gives us "food, . Threat'ning our national .lite with death. „..'-.

I Blood, rapine and murder .--eem to i have become not an epidemic, but a universal disease, breaking out m blotches all over the globe. Whether some peculiar element m the air, a moon attraction, or some, magnetic influence is exerted by the planets hnoving m their circles, "Truth" knows not, but the glad New Year has been ushered m (metaphorically) m bowls of blood. Certainly thd centre of the disease is located m Europe, but Maoriland is also having its share. The creatures of God "gifted" i with .the smaller brains seem to be I the most susceptible, and v/orhan's brain is evidently receiving its im- I press. At Napier, on March 2, a young lady named Miss Alice Parkinson is reported to have injected some, lead into her lover, a young geut.eman named Bert West. This f eat she accomplished by means of a "squirt," having four.' shots at her target. She then turned the hose on her own, fair countenance md succeeded m, once more making a bull. This markswomanship Is somewhat extraordinary, as a woman generally hits what she aims "not at. '!.' he condition of both is serious.

In Wellington's S;M.'s Court, before Mr. W. G. Rlddell, S.M., ELLEN SIJLLIVAN, ' ' a somewhat debonair-looking damsel, of about 28 or 30 years of . -i ire, appeared, on March 3rd. to answer a charge of having grevlously assaulted | her mother, Mary McCulley, with a table knife. The damaged li-.dy and | her daughter were, living at No. 6 'Frederick-Street, and on the light of j March 2 a Y quarrel,; altercation or something . arose between the two, during which the fair Ellen is, alleged to have Inserted, a knife In the region of her mamma's poll. It appears that Ellen was to iave. gone away for a trip that afternoon, -and. was accompanied by -a. gentleman named Lambert (presumably a <boardei;) to the railway station. They arrived, lt appears, just In time to be too late so they returned to the sacred precincts of famous Fredjrlck-strect | With results as above stated. Mr. : Lambert, lt appears, had gone out afi ter tea, tho ladles, m the meantime, filling In the interval ; with s.n exchange of feminine compliments. Arrived nt bis lodgings, Mr. Lambert found the ladies still engaged m the pleasant pastime above-mentioned, with the culminating result which brought for the old lady's gore. Just at that juncture, Sergeant Murphy, a plantigrade member of the John Hop Department, happened to be padding past the house and heard the disturbances, so he hopped m. He Immediately, and with great force of intelligence, grasped the situation and Ellen Sullivan. Mama, m the meantime, was m a fearful condition and the house presented A MOST SANGUINARY APPEARANCE?. Het' clothes and the bed on- which she I hud lain were literally drenched m gore. Dr. Hendry was sent for In company with the ambulance, and she was eventually carted to the hospital. Ellen, lt is said, showed no contrition for her unlllinl act: ln fact, she Is alleged to have sdld to her mother. "I hope to — - you arc dead ln the morning, you old — — -; I /tVon't be a bit sorry." The McCulley-Sullivan combination are not unknown to the 'Wellington police court. Some time ago. the Injured ancient was up before the beak with using language. On that occasion, the demure daughter came up and represented herself as being a member of the St. Vincent de Paul, society, and pleaded so .strenuously for the old lady's | discharge that 'she almost moved the j beak to learn. Eventually on the understanding that tho eloquent ■ old j lady Bhould deprive this fair city of her | 'presence, she was discharged. The ! duo then went to Whangamomona, Where they embellished the atmosphere ot that arcadian demesne until they returned to the Empire City. Ellen, whose scheme of 'decoration 1 run to a black hat and coat of Italian ! ochre color, is not at all a bad -looking piece of feminity, andjtppeured about as nervous as a trapped rabbit. She ' was remanded until the 10th, light ball being allowed on the understanding that she reported herself dally lo th" department of John Hopkins.