BAD REPUTE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7661, 17 January 1901, Page 2

BAD REPUTE.

CHARGE AGAINST A WOMAN.

At the Magistrate's Court to-d!ay^ be-.:, fore Mr W. W. Tanner, ' JIP., Mr Bi P. •: Monhire, J.P., anct Mr T. York, J:P. t Carrie Perham was : joha*gecll with having : kept a house of bad' repute in Tuaaa Street. Mr T. S. Weston appeared for the defence. Alexander Patterlton gave evidence that the accused hadl kept oth*r women at henhouse until recently. He had seen men, in the; house\more or less drunk. Cross-examined, ; he stated that he had had! occasion to go ' to the house on. business, as. he sold onions' and potatoes. John, OfMalley. stated" that; he lived in Taaaa Street, -not far from th^: acicusedTs house. There* wa^ a crowd of; ipeXxple there ndghs and day;, and it was ' frequented by^tajnken. men, many of whom went ;ixt ..•eahs. Joseph' 1 Martin, shoeamaker, <rfTuam .Street, stated that he had! often seen, -cabs and traps 'going to ifchei accused's bouse, especially a*., night. He' had seen >bwo women at accused's house,* but no men. 'He had, mot heard any row - : going on in the hojttse. Mary Awn. Jennet*! stated that she had known the accused for : «. number of years, and knew *bat she had' a bad name, and kept other women, smo ftE bad! repute. Cross-examined, the witness said she had worked 1 dn the accused'^ houro, but had never Kved with her. 'WH-' liam E. Sorrell stated.* that he lived -mlTuam Street, nearly opposite the accused's : ■ house, and had seen people go to it all hours of the day and night, arriving roost-. Iy in cabs. He had not heard any noise, i but people were constantly- going, to the tamse, wMoh was a nudsafa.ce te> the wholeof the meighbourhood. He should say till?*; the place was a house of bad' rspute.: James Tongue, who also resides in Tuamr Street, opposite the: house of the accused, stated' that all day and all night cabs drove up to the house, and mengot but and went in. The house was a downright nuisance" to the neighbourlood. . Arthur Kingdon, another resident in Tuam Street, next accused's house, stated that he was subjected to much annoyance by the constant traffic of cabs, and by men going to his house. On one occasion a. man walked right into his parlour without knacking. Detective v Livingstone stated that the accused wag keeping a house of bad repute,: aiid had been brought before the T court previously on a similar charged Constable Osmond and Ssrgeant Rod- : gers also gave evidence. The latter stated that there had been, disorder in the house, and he had been called in to turn oiit some men who had refused to 'leave. The accused also gave evidence, and for the: defence a man named Twbmer stated that : he kep;t the accused, and no men 'had been: to the house for immoralvpurposes. The! statements with regard to the accused's bad ; character' w^ere quite untrue. The accused' was not keeping him. Mrs Stsnhouse, "sister! of the accused, gave a^ecer-al denial to; the statements against accused's character.; Mrs Riley gave evidence of a similar nature.; The Bench unanimously considered that the; case had been proved, that it was a very; bad' one, and that a fine would not meet it.j The Bench wished ttf indicate its feeling offi the maftter, and to mark, its disapDrobationj of ithe conduct of the accused, who would be sentenced to one month's imprisonment,! without the option of a fine. The case had* been adjourned, and the accused was oifler-j ed to pay the expenses of the -adjournment^