CUDDLES AND CARESSES IN KITCHEN

NZ Truth, Issue 1080, 12 August 1926, Page 4

CUDDLES AND CARESSES IN KITCHEN

Bach-Loving Bruce Brosnan Pays The Piper For His Amorous Adventures

GOOD LITTLE GIRL UNTIL #/£ MET ROBERT

(From"Truth's" Special Christchurch Representative.) A BACH-LOVING bachelor gay is Robert Bruce Brosnan, of Christchurch. Cuddlesand kisses m the kitchen of a bach at New Brighton may have been very pleasant at the time, but Robert Bruce —and the girl—lost their heads. ; ••

THE net result for Brosnan has been disastrous. Not only was* lie saddled by the magistrate with the paternity of the child, but a sum of £12 10s. has been loaded- on to his impecunious shoulders to 1 meet the expenses.

ALTOGETHER a costly evening forC " Bruce. And he bleated m! Court that he was not m a position to meet the little bill at present. Had matters been left to the girl, who is barely 20 years of age, Brosnan,. however, might have got away with itAJT as, the baby had be,en admitted to a receiving home, the Education; Department took a hand m the affair and commenced proceedings against the . bachi-loving bachelor. Whether from a regard for

economy or lack of funds, Brosnan elected to, conduct his own case-—and right well he did it until he began to ask the girl some unsavory questions about certain matters. "What are you. driving at?" demanded the magistrate after a' considerable amount of dirty linen:- had been shamelessly washed by the bush lawyer. "Are you asking all these,' questions merely to annoy the girl?" '•'.' "I'm trying to get at the point, , j your Worship," said Brosnan. "Well, what is the point?" the Bench wanted tp know.. . ' .". ' And then. m injured tones, Robert Bruce went on to explain that he had

$ — - — __ — . : — __ — __ — _.' never been told by the girl of the condition she was m. "That is all right, she has frankly , aomitted that she did not tell you," snapped the S.M. And taking the hint; Brosnan got back on to safer ground. The girl, m company, with a friend, went out to a Brighton bach m April of last year by invitation, and there Brosnan proceeded to make as good ah impression as he could.

He succeeded. fairly well, too, and it T/as a pleasant evening all round. • "We had some singing and'some wine,""said the girl, "and after a while the other man— a Mr. Hardie — and my friend went into another room." ..' She and Brosnan were- left m the kitchen. \ ..,-. - _ Kisses and cuddle's "were- then the order of the .evening, which ended as such evenings m feuc'i circumstances usually do.' , r OOP LITTLE GIRL The love feast was' featured on the menu, three nights later, and it was not very long before, the girl realized that she had built a h'tavy. cross of woe for herself. ■ But she admitted that she had been out with Brosnan to a bach . at St. Albans on several, nights. 1 since the New Brighton interlude. She had not told Robert Bruce of her condition, as 'she could not see him to tell him and did not know where to find him. •

5 : ; -* : With all the. skili of a practiced lawyer; Brosnan put the giH through a vigorous cross-examination, and occasionally thumped the table to lend emphasis to his questions. He tackled her about her alleged relations with other men, but she was not to be trapped so easily. ' She had been a good little girl until she met Bruce, it appeared. UE TOOK THE HINT And then it was that Brosnan got busy on . the dirty linen. He forced a certain admission from the girl amid tears, "but that was after I knew you." ' ■ She also admitted having received telephone messages frcm him telling her about her state of health arid advising her to attend tbe hospital. The brows', of -I the magistrate beetled ominously, and he demanded to know whether these questions were being asked simply to annoy the girl. Brosnan took the hint and up. . DRUCE MUST PAY He did not elect to go into the box, contenting himself with an address to the Bench m which he disclaimed all responsibility as. to paternity, althoughhe admitted m a statement that he had been guilty of misconduct with the girl. . ■ „. .-■■'.• The magistrate had no doubt at all m the, matter and. declared Robert Bruce to be the father of the child and ordered him to pay accordingly.