"Look at My Face"

NZ Truth, Issue 1128, 14 July 1927, Page 9

"Look at My Face"

■'What/! Down and out?" from Serjeant Dennis.' / .... "Yes— down : and out! I was 7' : down about half a minute; and „,--- /they used their boots on me. When 7 I cam,^ to they were gone." '.7.7' Qn'the second . day, Lawyer A. McDonnell said he was watching the case m ythe ' interests'- 'of thegirl; > , Di\ Frederick Tooth said that he made an examination of the complainant on the Sunday morning, June 5, at : 6 a.m7. I She was weeping and throwing her- * self about. .; She gave a confused ac-' count of herself. The examination dis- , closed considerable bruising and swelling of the lips, and she w r as bleeding . from the mouth. . "! v 7-.. From his examination he came to . a certain conclusion. Thebruising appeared to_,have occurred as recently as . _-'two hours before. . She said she had been to a dance and ; hadbeen dancing with a man she did 1 not know— knew his Christian ;name ! only; that after the 'dance . she Y had j .been m a car, .got out of the car,, but! i she was too 'confused .to'tell what hap- . pen'e'd!- further. ■.-;'.:' '■' You could tell she had' been drinlcing ?— No, I looked for that, and exarri'ined her niouth, but could find no smell ■| of alcohol. ;! -:■,;<:*..' Dr. Tooth said he thought she told -him; that, she got the injury to her mouth from a punch. 7 l She vyas m a hysterical condition, throwing herself about oh the seat ! all the while she was there, and it must have Been nearly an hour be- ' fore he could examine her. 7 ;The girl friend was. a dark, ..rather good-looking girl!-' -' She said that she i' v was, a; shop-assistant and lived at the same address as the girl who -said she.; had been, assaulted— had. known her four years. . 1 On the next Sunday afternoon she first met Cullum— rode m a .bus!'"' with" Cullum and his lady friend.' AY "This lady said that he had never been to the Casino before, and she

o— — i— "■ — hoped something could be done with regard to the case. She said, according to the evidence, she hoped they could come to some settlement, without taking the case further, as It seemed such a shame for two people so young that this should happen. They finally went to her friend's place at Bondi, where, said the witness, Cullum asked her friend :, "Just what is the, matter?" "Can't you see?" said she. "Just , look at my face." "Oh!" he replied, according to the evidence, "you slipped getting In the car and 1 done that." She said, so It was alleged:" "No, you punched me." He said he could not remember it, and she started to break down, and went into another room. Cullum's lady friend came In, and then Cullum. The lady sai,d, went on the girl, "Can't you borne to some arrangement without taking it to Court? Do you intend taking it to Court? You know if yous take it to Cjourt you won't get' anything. Why 1 hot try and settle '■ it out of Court? Your name will only be- dragged about.", "I'm sure that Owen . Is willing to settle it," the lady friend went on, so the story ran, to which the girl m the case /replied: "You don't think about me." :. The witness^ said that she next saw Cullum about 7.30 that evening, when he came back by himself. He said he wanted to see her pal, and she showed him into the dining-room. "He was asking her," sai.dt the witness, "if she couldn't oome to some arrangement. He had come back to see what she was going to do." .; ! ' He said: "Will you "marry me?" said the witness, and she herself spoke up and said: "Oh, no! She'd be a foolish girl if she done that." - He said: "Can't we come to some settlement? Will, you take £60? 7lt will square the case and I'll always stick to you." The witness continued that the girl said: "Oh, no, I won't acoept of anything. My people wish me u to go on with the case, and I'm going on with It." \ Lloyd, Cullum and the girl called for the witness, so she told the Court, on the Monday morning m a taxi at her place of business, and took her put to Kensington to the lady's place— the lady" Cullum -stayed with.*-- All went In except Lloyd, who went away. Em (the other gentleman) asked the girls to go to the races. According tb her, when the lady pressed her to keep the coat the girl said: "Oh^ no; 1 won't keep it. I'll wear it. and return it.", But the lady said: "Don't be foolish; take it , and keep 'it. He has wronged you, so I don't see why you shouldn't get some compensation.''|' So they went to the races with Em, Cullum and another gentleman named "Col." They arrived at the races late and left early, seeing only two or three traces."- '-'■■ - , V ... iCullum .came; away with. the two girls and they went by taxi to Bondi. In the taxi he kept on asking the girl, so .the witness alleged: "Haven't, you decided what you!re.gp ing to do yet?" The girl i always replied.: "No; I'm going to take it to Court." That same night, about- 9, the witness and the girl were at the latter's sister's place, when the girl's brother-in-law came arid took the two of them out to Cullum's place.