A Disgraceful Case.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 187, 10 June 1873, Page 7

A Disgraceful Case.

The Sydney papers report a very horrible case tried at the Quarter Sessions, which diseased some strange phases in the Colonial social system. One Charles Tuckland, a Cunaman, was charged with keeping a disorderly house, the principal witness against him being a countryman, rejoicing in the appropriate name of Lau Hawk. This hawk had captured a pigeon in this den of infamy, in the shape of a young girl, a native of »vdney, named Ellen Jones. She was one of several young girls in the habit of frequenting the house and smoking opium and drinking with Chinamen and "degraded raite men." One day she was drunk, or drugged, and in this condition the loving iiawk took her to an accommodating clersrvman, the Rev. Dr Fullerton, who, for a small consideration, very obligingly married them. Jnegu-1 was only nineteen, drunk, with only another girl with her as " bridesmaid," as drunk as herself, and the bridegroom a Chinaman. The minister, however, raised no objection to the ill-omened union. In the drunken woman, reeking with the fumes of ft Pmm, he saw only the interesting bride, jnd he consigned the unfortunate creature to »«f fate, doubtless with a clear conscience, » not with a prayer. And this horrible mockery was performed, according to the ijisband, at ten o'clock at night, at the house J* a minister of religion. What wonder that ye Judge held up his hands in horror ; but " was only the Chinaman who was sent to PM, for keeping a house of ill-fame.