GIRLS CALLED HIM "HONEY"

NZ Truth, Issue 1127, 7 July 1927, Page 3

GIRLS CALLED HIM "HONEY"

Dusky Visttof Throws Light On \ Midnight Adventure

: (From "N.Z: Truth's" Special Wellington Representative.) WHEN you let. a house and your', tenant fails to "come across" with the rent, don't getall hot and bothered and rush round to molest the occupier at twelve o v 'clcwjk at night. .

\ T?^ <^ R> ** y° u d 0 you're sure to ■■•'. '"'■JT^ ** n^ yourself up against it.' ffilt The law says there are several ways m which you can J| . '"pjotain satisfaction— you can W* sues t , distrain for the rent or secure an order for possession. "' %!!■,.. Possibly that ist- what Daniel Tonkins would have done :ihad he not been so admittedly quick -tempered. v As a restaurant-keeper; 'he found occasion to lease a house of^hls wife's m Lloyd Street, Wellington;; '* hj^ two grown-up daughters retaining-a'iloom, for which they paid the tenant ;il/^per week* . ■ ■ •; - -\K<. James Albert Robins, who gaihW 'possession of the house, is a married man with a family. ' : A recent immigrant from Home, ' he is an electrician by trade, but ' .found it difficult to secure steady employment and was m arrears with his rent.

; He was further handicapped with an ailing wife, who was subject to epileptic fits. . .y'^ ;■; ;■•■.. ■.■; ■ . : Robins eventually found himself m, arrears to'the tune of some £40 odd. for which the landlord had obtained an ordor from the Court for payment. And now, through letting his ire rise beyond the bounds of decorum, Ton- j kins finds himself out of pocket to the extent. of £53. Tonkins, it is alleged, had no authority from his wife to collect the rent. Rabins, m the Wellington Magistrate's Court last week, charged Tonkins with assault and asked for £100 damages. •:•;.'' 'i, In' the girls'; bedroom m the ■■> ■V; hpuse which Robins rented, Tonkins left a clothes-chest containing ■odds ends of family wearing apparel;;' / , On a Sunday night m April he set out m his car just -before midnight to pick up some shirts. ; '-. % . ■

as : company for him at this late hour he.totiic; a Hindu.friend. Arriving at the plaice of destination, the pair walkedt^n jth'rough a side door which was^standing ajar. ' '.■•■.■ ■; ' '- r 'V- ■ Tonkins left his dusky friend' m the passage and proceeded, about. his "business." i \ According to his own account of the affair, he first knocked at his daughters' bedroom, s^ent a few minutes talking to them and then crossed the hall to the Robins' door., ; '■• When that worthy had answered his summons, he politely asked for the rent outstanding; not that he wished to ''incommode Robins, you 'know, but because he was hard-pressed for money himself and could do' with the amount owing.,, ' • 'Robins, '• who is a' diminutive man of meek demeanor, had' 1 —, according to Tonkins' story-*— cut up rough' and called m the police, his wife m the meantime coming out into the passage and smacking Tonkins' face. But an eye-witness to the affair, who was a boarder m the house, had a very different tale to tell. Like Robins, he declared that Tonkins was the aggressor and had hauled. Robins and his wife out ,of bed. The first thing he knew of any ruction taking place was a violent banging on his door. Getting out- into the passage, he saw Tonkins enter Robins' bedroom. .Tonkins was under the "influ- , ence," calling out abusive language and demanding his rent. Being curious to -see. what was afoot, witness betook himself to Robins' room and there saw the aforesaid Robins locked m the loving embrace of Tonkins. Robins, he said,' had just been pulled out of bed and was trying Jo get some clothes on. The boarder separated the pair and got Tonkins into the passage. . He was frothing at the mouth. When the police arrived he had Tonkins m the. backyard, [: There •.£ ; ; was : a. the, passage.- >;>:'. Bnag Wan -^inghi who radiated good cheer above a flaming' yellowT-and-red tie when, he eri-| tered the witness-box, said he lived m Willis Street with Tonkins and has known him for years. ; ' .. - .-..': . .: On the night of all the brfther ; he accompanied Tonkins to the house m Lloyd Street. , . j Tonkins, he said, jusf knocked at the man's door and when Robins came out\ he said: "I am poor man. I You have not paid rent for ' long time. What about my money?" ' ; : Robins came out of the room with a fire shovel, while his wife , smacked Tonkins across the face/ Olive and Madeline Tonkins were Standing' in the doorway of their room. . „ ' . Lawyer W. P. Pringle, who guided the storm-tossed barque of Robins through the; fog, asked Singh a few questions.

l!!m!i'!.'!mmHi ' I put it to. you, Singh, that you went to the house expressly to see one : of. the daughters ?— l didn't go to 'see daughters, but for de car ride. /Didn't you speak to them al> the time you. were there?— No. ' / What did you uo?— I sland m the /: : What do the daughters call youi Singh? Don't they call you "Hon-■ey?"—-Yes, they catt me "Honey." Singh admitted that he knew " the girls fairly -well — knew them by tht.ir Christian names, m fact. He liked to have a chance to talk to them. ■"• SHE KNEW ' ' HONE Y > > ■The fair Madeline said ■■ she .worked! for her father, who paid her £2/5/- a . week, 11/- of which she paid {for the \ room her sister and herself occupied;' , Father might be quick-tempered, she , admitted, but he soon got over it. Lawyer Prin>le\: Do you remember . him threatening to '"dp me m" out m the passage last week; when" the case ; ya? adjourned ?--No. ?.■■■■* ; .' No, rand you don't remember him saying he didn't care a -I — —for the police, the law or anything else?— No, ; .But you ; remember trying to pa6ify him, don't you?— Yes, but J didn't -hear what he was talking 1• ■■ about. ■ .-; •. - . . " V . • ' ;.\. ;■• ' ■. ! Yes, Madeline knew a' man cabled ''Honey,'' but she hadn't seen him4hat night.' . ■'; .>■ ■-.'■■.; ...■•■-.- >■- Lawyer Keesing, for defendant, 'ad-i i mitted that there Were. certain dis- ; crepancies m the evidence, but "there , were always discrepancies m- evidence of this nature.-; , ; :'•"■'. Magistrate Salmon characterised some of the evidence. as Gross per- ; " • jury. •■..; ■'. v' ; ; ■;■;:,*.. "I find the Plaintiff is. entitled to compensation," he added> awarding . £50 and costs. , - 'V. } : , ;

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