MYSTERY OF GLOVANNI'S OFFICE-BOUDOIR

NZ Truth, Issue 1082, 26 August 1926, Page 7

MYSTERY OF GLOVANNI'S OFFICE-BOUDOIR

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\ '.'■ ... - "■ She eventually ref used . to : entertain the idea, and the defendant asked her to go to Wellington on the understanding that the cost would be borne by him. Ti -,-■' Miss Miller decided to accompany her to Wellington, said witness, and defendant paid her £10 for fhe fares. The child waS;born on December 12. She went only once to the pictures With another man while she was keeping companyv w,ith .the defendant, but there was no unusual intimacy between them. ".■;'' The baby was now in a receiving home, having been committed in the February following its birth. The girl said she was 23 years o'f age, and she had only had one position since coming to Wellington. pARGIULO'S GIFT • Ida had worked for the defendant but could not say how long she had been going out with him before entering his employ at the Tivoli tea-rooms, which he subsequently took over. She worked for him, for two months or a little more. She admitted that she had been in a certain condition several month's when she went to Gargiulo's to work. • « ( . ff ■ She continued, to work for eight weeks, for the defendant without mentioning her condition. ■_• Counsel: This is not the first illegitimate child you have had, is it? — No; there is one other. ■■„ • , The girl added that she was only eighteen' when the other child was born fc and she obtained an order in respect of that child. . Gargiulo, she said, gave her the .. £10 to come to Wellington when she was in the office with' him. There was another man there named Jack Commetti. , ' W HY she smiled Counsel: Why do you smile at the recollection? — I could never get hold of the name. Did you ever go put with. Commetti? —No; he was often at the Tivoli tearooms with Miss Miller. Since meeting Gargiulo. witness said, she had never misconducted herself with any other man. , ' ' Counsel: Do. you drink? — 1 used to, but I don't now. You .and Miss Miller were in 'the habit of frequenting hotels in Dune'diif? — Only once or twice. I put it to you that you were repeatedly drinking with men? — We were in hotels- sometimes, but not always drinking. Well, what didS you go in for? Do you suggest that it was just for the f un.of it? " Did you not go there and stay with other men? — No. . Didn't you on numerous occasions pass the pie-shop of Sumaris in company with men at one and two in the morning?— No. . . _ The girl admitted that both in the lupins at St. Kilda ,and in the defendant's abode in Tennyson Street mis-conduct-had taken place.

Young Negress Reveals A Strange Love Drama ■! Tale of Temptation's Tragic Trip To The Tivoli Tea-rooms • . (From "Truth's" Special Wellington Representative.) As a busy restaurant proprietor in romantic Dunedin, Giovanni Gargiulo of the dark and passionate eyes had a great idea for saving time after his night 's work was done. All he had to do when he grew weary was to press a button in his little office and— hey presto ! — down flopped a big double-bed. Thereby hangs a strange tale. One of his pretty little waitresses is a mother, and, because the sins of the parents are sorrietirnes visited on the next generation, the tiny infant has been committed to a receiving home — never to know a mother's love. uiniuniuuiniiiuiuiMniiiinuiiHiiinniuuiiiiiuiiiiuHiiuiiiiuiiiHHiiiHiiiinuiMuiiiiiiuiniMiimiiiiimiiinMiuuiHUiKimninnHiiiMiiiniMiiiiinHiiuiiniiiiiiiiiiiiii

She stayed with him one night •and went to work very early : the next morning. To the magistrate,, witness said she had no reason for not telling the defendant of her condition immediately. The money he gave her when she left Dunedin was for the purpose • of assisting her over her trouble. It was not wages. Ivy Miller, a young colored woman, who concluded every answer with a courteous "Yes, sir," and spoke, crisply .and with assurance, said she had become friendly with Miss Kitchen when the latter was working at the laundry and they lived together. She remembered the excursion made by the foursome to St. Kilda. "Jack Commetti and 1 left the others at the bushes, and we were away for^about half an hour," said witness. r Later again the four of them visited a place called the town belt. QFFICE BOUDOIR On another occasion witness and the girl Kitchen visited the defendant's room in Tennyson Street. This was about March, before defendant tools over the Tivoli tea-rooms. Sub-Inspector Harvey: How many rooms had Gargiulo? — Only one, his bedroom. There were four of you there? — Yes. Did anything happen , there? — T couldn't say really for certain. I was talking- too much with the boy I was with and we were playing. There was a light there at first, but someone put it out. How long were you all there in the room together?— We remained from abopt 7.30 until 10 o'clock. • Questioned by the sub-inspector in regard to the Tivoli tea-rooms, witness said the defendant had a concealed double-bed in the office, which folded up when not in use. "He made it come down and showed it to us one day when we were there," said witness. Did Miss Kitchen ever stay at the Tivoli all night? — She was out on two occasions; once, I believe, she stayed at" his place in Tennyson Street, and en another occasion she stayed 'at the Tivoli. fcEEPING COMPANY Did he take her out sometimes? — I know that he took her for walks and to the pictures. • ' "I also know that he bought her chocolates," added witness confidingly. The couple, she continued, were "keeping company very strong up

to March, then there was a little, break and they started keeping company again." It was early in June that witness suspected Miss Kitchen's condition. She questioned her and the girl said she was* in a certain condition, the man responsible being defendant Gargiulo. '\ ' The girl said she "hadn't told him yet; I think he knows." . "• When witness saw the defendant he replied: "Yes, I thought so." He asked witriess to see what she could do, iniiimmimiimiMinmmiiimiminiinmmmiiiiiiiiiimnimil iftintmuiimttHitMiitimiiiiifnimntnniiiiniijt/iiiiiiiitiiiiiiui

and advised her to interviejv a certain person in regard to the case. "He said if it could be done he would pay for it," said witness. However, it was finally decided to abandon the idea, and Gargiulo suggested that the girls should go to Wellington. He said he would stand for it and they both ■ left for Wellington a week later. "Miss Kitchen gave me ten £1 notes which he had given her to pay the fat:es," said witness. After the bab» ' came into' the world, witness sent the defendant two telegrams, neither of which was answered. , She then wrote telling him that the newcomer was "a lovely baby '■' v boy, and. exactly like him." He did not acknowledge this communication . either. Lawyer Perry: How long did the trouble between her and Gargiulo last? — Only a few days and they made it up again. You have been back to Dunedin since ? — Yes. - / How long were you there' on that occasion ? — Five or six months. AVER THE SOUP . , It didn't occur to you when you saw him down there on that occasion to ask him about the. telegrams you sent? — I had had enough, and the girl's troubles were over. I had to pay some of my own money for Miss Kitchen's baby's clothes. > Have you ever stayed at an hotel?— rOnly on one or two occai sions, but never at night. Ever have a drink with men?— (Haughtily): No, sir. Have men ever given you money for drink—at Auckland, for instance? — No, sir. "When did you first meet Mr. Gargiulo? — Early in January, 1924. How were you introduced? — There was no introduction whatever. He served me with a meal when I was in the restaurant. And how did you come to make the acquaintance of Jack Commetti? — I was having a meal at the place. ■TIOVANNI'S DENIAL To the magistrate, witness said that the girl Kitchen had intimated that she would not be home that night, as she was going, to stay with Gargiulo. "In* the office -at the Tivoli there is a folding-bed; that is where they must have stayed on one occasion." Recalled, Ida Emily Kitchen, -weeping copiously, had no answer to make to the magistrate when he asked why

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MiiitiiiiltitiiiiiliiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiniJiiiiiititliititiiiiiiliitiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiuiutiiituuiw^ Was he then a single man?— As far as I knew he was. Cross-examined, the girl said-she did not tell the woman in the Alexandra Home who the father of the child was. She had not paid the Education Department anything for the child nor for confinement expenses. Despite the fact that she' was aske.d for the expenses before she left. the home, she refused to give the name of the. father of the child. ; • She did not make any claim on the defendant until June, 1925. She was aware that'; her solicitor had received a letter from the defendant denying, paternity of . the child. ' piECART PEEPERS 'Giovanni Garguilo, the defendant, a short, stockily built Italian, with a prominent nose, penetrating . small eyes and a squeaky voice, prefaced, his remarks by intimating that he was not top good with plain English, although an interpreter was not required. He spoke emphatically and with no show. of emotion at all. ' i Things were just so, his demeanor suggested, and could not be construed any other Way. He .was not the father he said. , Someone had introduced him to ~ Miss Mi Her, he added, and she in turn introduced him to Miss Kitchen. « The latter did not come to work for him until July and he had met her probably two months before. The fact that the landlady came into his room every night cluded the possibility of any misconduct as suggested by the girl. ■ '*

She had answered his advertisement for a pantry-maid. He never gave her money and he had not received the teiegrams referred to. A week: after she came to work for j him he committed misconduct with her. The lupins incident happened in daylight. The sub-inspector: Didn't, you know of the girl's condition when she came to Wellington?— She tolda me noding. But surely you could see for yourself? — I didda not notice anydings. Will you swear you did not know? — I didda not know. Are you married ?— No, single. . Hew old are you? — Fifty-do. The ' magistrate: Did she stay the night on occasions? — Yes. ; How .did you 'come to get in , touch with her?— Once a week she would comma down to see me. How long had that been gping on? • — All da time I. have been at da Tivoli. . How did you arrange the St. Kilda appointment? — I just met her in da streeta with Missa Miller and Jack Commetti, and we went straight out. Did you ever take her out? — I.'taka her to da pictures in da Octogan once. Did you ever get her presents or give her anything in return for. her affections? — I. givva her da quid one day. Still a different dialect was heard when Constantine Sumaris, a foreigner with a better grip of the lingo, came forward. He was also in the restaurant game in Dunedin. He deposed to knowing Gargiulo. As a local itinerant purveyor of hot savs., etc., in a pie-cart, he had a unique vehicle for observing the midnight flotsam and jetsam in the city streets. ADIES— AND OTHERS He had seen both the girls Kitchen and Miller getting about "with young fellars" from one hotel to another — "different men every time." He had seen them go into hotels ;.. ' in the day time, too. "I give up my own girl," he said, "when I see her going about with sailors — the warships were there." He said he had seen the girls in question go into the Metropolitan Hotel. "They went into the ladies' room," he said. "It said 'ladies,' but (he nodded his head) they were not all ladies there." ' ■ ■-* The sub-inspector: You must have been there, then? — No, 1 vos not. Well, how did you know? — r feel like a drink sometimes; I have it. I go into the ordinary bar, but I can see what is going on without going into the ladies' room. 7 He had even seen Miss Miller and the girl Kitchen outside a telephone box when he was going home from the piecart in the small hours. "They, had a man 'each," he added with a touch of. finality. The magistrate took time to consider the matter and has yet to deliver his opinion as to whether Giovanni is the father of Ida Kitchen's baby.