A Boil-Up In Belgium Street

NZ Truth, Issue 1102, 13 January 1927, Page 6

A Boil-Up In Belgium Street

(From ''N.Z. Truth's" Special Auckland Representative.) The Boyles lived m Belgium Street, Auckland. * They also held nocturnal arguments there until tke landlord and his lady got fed up with- the verbal disturbances. ■ One night, not so very long ago, P. C. Gawler happened along Belgium Street just m time to see Phyllis Boyle (a sweet young thing of 28) dressed only m a' 1 kimono, come, flying out of the Boyle apartment as though propelled by some invisible 1 force. The invisible force, so Phyllis told S.M. Hunt m the Police, Court next morning, when she was charged with being disorderly while drunk, was the' landlord's wife, who (so she alleged) pulled her out of bed m the middle ,of the- night, and heaved her out into the hard, unsympathetic world. "I'm nude, I'm nude. Constable, you're arresting a nude woman I "shrieked Phyllis, and worked herself , up into such • a state of hysteria that the constable had to, handcuff her to prevent' her shedding the only two garments that protected , her from the chill night air. * * i • ■ l With her long, sand-colored hair coiled round her head, Phyllis looked appealingly at the Bench, the morning after the / night, before, and said: "Oh, I wasn't drunk, I never drink." But the S.M. tb.ought otherwise, and having discovered that this was Phyllis 's fourth presentation at Court, fined her £1 - or three days. , Incidentally, Hubby Boyle headed the list of drunks the same morning, and now he too is 9/- pooler, i UMWii«iii«»iiiiiiiiiiiumimiuiiiuiiwmMiinminiiiiiwiM^^ .7. ' '