FATE PLAYED WITH IVY

NZ Truth, Issue 1198, 15 November 1928, Page 11

FATE PLAYED WITH IVY

A Change of Mind* and Now Little I Kingsford Is Alone (From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Christchurch Representative,) If foy Sellars had carried dut her intention to go to the circus oh thenight of lad Boxing Day t instead of being lured by the rhythmical strumming of ajdzz banct/lht babble of happy Voices and the swishing of dainty feminine \ garments and lithesome feet, she declares that she Would not haMe had to face j the bitter shame of a court inquiry m an effort to determine the paternity of ; littk Russell Kingsford Sellars. •

BUt 1 the man she arraigned to answer her charge maintained his Steffi denial of the girl's imputations and M&gteti'ate Lawry declined to compel Kttgh O'Neill to contribute td- : WafdS the support of Ivy's ibaby. through hef counsel, the girl stated (that she had known O'Neill for four years atid had gqne out with him a good deal tip till the time when he removed to Wellington about two years agq. Ab66Tding to the story given by the i gtti, they had been oh very, intimate ietiha, and intercourse had occurred repeatedly before he left Christchurch, and was resumed on the occasion of his visit from Wellington at Christmas, 1926. ■ : : On Boxing Day last year, O'Neill , paid a further visit to Chf latch urch, aiid In the evening he fiiest Ivy with her tnotftter, hef sister aird another man m MoorhOttse AVenue. "We were going to the circus/ the girl said, "but O'Neill persuaded me td chaftge ffiy mind and go to a dance/ "I we"ht home and . dressed for the dance, but he then said it was tbo late, &o we went for a walk to the Wilson's Road bridge at St. Martins, where intimacy occurred/ .They returned home about 11.15 p.m. &iid ■ifhlle" they were standing at the gate Geot'g'e Gallagher, who. was keeping compafiy with Ivy's sister, came out of the house and saw them at the gate. It! January she became aware of her condition, find SOOfi after, she said, she iiif'ifHfiffi'nAfinhfiWWfiiiiiiiuitfiiiifr^i/rtfnffiuiMtintiiititiiitiiiiiiitiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiuiMiitiiiiiiiiiiii lu((T««inti<iiVriiil(ni(nci(rtiiliiiiii(iuti(i(liiiiicni(imlKluilimlmiimuiimimiMiiiimliiimiiimmi

fMiWniiiim«itfimn<MMnftraMMiui(uiA'iWrfMniuiwuiiuuimmiwAin<ninafinniuuuuu wrote to O'Neill ■ charging Kirn iwith paternity. Sh« a.drriitteid that she had, received two or thrde letters of deriiaf frdm O'Neil, but she declared that he was resporisfbfe for the* .child, which was born on SepterrtbW £3. Many; vital points, hitherto untOtfched by ivy, -were raised toy LdWyer\w. Tracy, who appeared for O'NeilL .■ 'The girl' admitted that m July, l§27, their cOrr'esp'oridence •jeased #ith a complete ..break. ..-'..-■■ "Out of sight; out of mind?" Suggested eoufisel. ; . . ; : '•; -. . . : .;. "I suppose so," the girl responded With a Smile.. .. '. . : /.-., , . il l- r think ypu told ,him off. m one of your letters for the tone .of his p'reyiOUs letter to you", arid then your h4xt two letters to him wei'e purely a formal Siccou'ht of current events. Tfhere rio- suggestion' iji any. Of fimt letters about intercourse previous to Christmas list yeatt— l didn't Write about those kind of things m my letters. "!•'■.'■ The magistrate suggested to counsel thfit she" could hardly be expected to Mention events which had happened mne moflths previously. ■-"._■• Resuming- his cross* examination; Lawyer T>aoy' suggested . to ivy ,that she was disappointed m Easter-, 1927, abtiUt O'Neill's attentions to he?, arid With this the girl agreed. well, ir you knew your conditldri m January, Why did yeu not Writs until ! March blaming O'Neill f Or it?— l just ptlt off writing. If he was the man, why. did you put it off 7-^1 had no special reason.' . (juotifig from a .bunch of letters which had 1 passed between them, Lawyer Tracy asked: Why did you start 6ft ydur" leite^r, "I suppose you will be surprised to get this letter"?— I didn't kfiOW how to start, a letter like that. Readiflg; ftii?tKely counsel continued: "We Ofily went OOt one' night, but fate must h&ve been mUch against us as y<SU g'Ofenie ifttb trouble." TO this O'Neiil fepiied: "TTou know <l\iJteJ as Well as 1 do that you can't blame mey we were only out one night and nothing happened to cause ydtir edflditidh . .« I am quite prepared to defend any action you 'bring , \'\ lam very SOrry to hear of your trouble, arid I will help yo"U if I can.*'. GoUngelf You got this denial m itfardhj yet why did you not reply until he" sent a telegram asking 1 if you got his. letter?-^— l Was away for a holiday at Kairaki B6ach arid did not

get his telegram until I returned home a week later. You had a week at Kairaki and a week at your office to reply. Surely you could not have Had two more private places to write to him? . Jvy, however, could not account for her belated reply until he insisted by telegram. Reading again from the bunch of letters ooUched mostly In af* feet io hate terms, counsel Continued: "You are the ortly man I have been intimate With, but I suppose you will doubt that." "Why Aid you gay that, Miss Sellaj^s? —I BUppose hd would doubt It. Counsel thereupon put m the bundle of tetters, with the remark to the magistrate that O'Neill had made an unconditional denial right throughout the proceeding's. tJnder further cross-examination, the girl stated that- o'Nellldld not Want to go to the circus because he had seen It m Wellington* She flatly denied a suggestion that she had been to a dance m the Caledonian Hall with O'Neili and that she had never b'eeri near St. Martins. You admit that when you went home th*at night O'Neill and you rode hbme on his bicycle?— Yes. : And when he left your place he took another -Bicycle away with him. Where did lie ; get it? — I think When We Ware Walking home he called m at his mother's house for it, . Wasn't it his (brother's bike, and . iiiiniAniminillffliVinMimi'iiimnmiMni'nilimiiiimfiliiifnniiiliiiiiililinnciimiiminiimiiiitiim'

iii<ii<iimi'AhifiniiriMri)niiin^int»iiiftflin<immtfintttiiinmmtfiifitrft<imWiii«fiK<rmnitiiirtßmint iiuuiuiuiiuuiuninuiiannuuHiiiiiiMiiUimiiiiiimiiliiiinniiiHtiittituiuniiiifHfinnmiimmniimia didn't he gfet it from the Caledonian Stall ?— No, we were never near the hail ••;: c • ■ . . . If ybu were put for a stroll. hi an ordinary, -way. you sorely would riot take a, bicycle with yoii ? , ■ . ivy Tvasf vratnef ha>y on this point, arid said she. cotild not remeiiiD'er how they . dame bacji to St. Martins. . Counsel interjected -tersely that ,if She had ridden on the bar of a, man's bfke from St. Martins, to Meri vale she would have remembered ail about it. i think you .made arrangements tP meet :;hiin the next day., yet you thought do little about it that you &id not turn up. Is that the action of a;WOma,n who. had been, intimate With a man the previous .night? , . : -.Ivy declared that she was Only ten minute's late. and O'Neill had run& her. the next day /when she explained. > ... b'jNeill, however, denied that he had ever heard from her again, The girl's mother gave brief evidence: bearing On the meeting m Moorhouse Avenue, and seeing the young couple -making awky for A. dance, but she did not know what dance they were supposed to be going to. Lawyer Archer intimated that he had another witness,' the man Qailagher, who saw the' couple standing onU side the girl's home on the fateful night, but theS.M. intimated that that wduid .he insuffidient cOrroboratidn. The magistrate, aftef perusing? O'Neill'^ letters to the srirl, stated that there wag nothing m them inconsistent ■with his present attitude, and there Was insufficient corroboration on Which he could make an order. gd Ivy's case terminated abruptly, and O'tteili was not required to call his defence. A test OF KEENNESS . Ground until it will lop off hair at a single stroke arid made to do it si* times— thus are iDurham Duplex biadea tested before- beingr passed as "keen." So you NEVER FIND a dUii blaje m a packet of D ; and Bs, Hardware stores and tobacconists.* -Lock, stock, and barrel<- i 4e{tve pack* -. ing and tranaijort to N<2. Exspress Cdm* ■ pany, Limited. No matter how short the notice or how great the distance possessions will be delivered on time, safely and ecohdmicany. Estiniates given at ail our offleesr All work under the care of experts. If you get sudden not-le^ of transfer, call and see US.-N.Z. EXCESS GO,, ;tttD 4 * ;■