ARE THEY WEDDED?

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 177, 26 July 1913, Page 17

ARE THEY WEDDED?

SOLICITOR SEEKS DECLARATION THAT CoFSIN IS HIS WIFE. V\ HEN THE RAIN CAME ON. Indirectly a shower of raiu led to an' uuUsutn ail.uu being biouaht on Tuesday, i ~i,i,i- loth, lu the i.uiuouigu Lourt ot £>ea- j -.on. Mr Lewis jouu caw, solicitor. asKeU .or a dc-iaruliou that he was married lo i is cousin, .leuilliiu t-cotl (.tluiour law, a aiiiiik typist, .Mio denied the marriage. ! ,-lr i si«. who is t.iutyoue. ssunl mat ou • ..1-lslu.as Hay. Itilt, nc and Miss (aw : c.e walking near _liubuig.il. when ram ai.-.c on, and they look shelter. While' i iney were waiting tiny talked of inaliilooliy, and uc.le.ed t,. accept each other sis, . liouse an Hiding to Scottish, law. lie asked l.er whether sue r-ssil-,-,1 Unit IL<- step was as binding ns if tne marriage took place m a cathedral with iia.ll' a dozen clergymen, and she said sin- did. She returned next day to Falkirk, and the matter was ki pt secret, but the panics frequently met. In March, Miss raw wrote asking than a cousin. In the following April he insisted on a written declaratiou. which she gave him. It was in the following terms:— "I. Jemima Scott Gilmour law, Falkirk. hereby acknowledge Lewis John Caw to bo my lawfully-wedded husband." Ten days biter she wrote denying that the document was binding on her. and request,ug that lie should return it. She said that tie had forced her to grant it. which bc de tared was untrue. It was not true, he added, that he had pestered her. or lhai ihe document was granted to him merelj to humour him, and with no thought thut it was binding. He still had alTection for Miss Caw. and desired to be di-clared her husband. Mr Caw said on Wednesday that in April his cousin wrote: — "I do not love you. Therefore marrinjif would be impossible." He had told her repeatedly that they wer, already married, and ho did not understan that statement in her letter. A tew day later she said that if he kept her to he. bargain she would commit suicide. In answer to the judge, Mr Caw said be frit that if tiie woman really loved him it was his duty to marry her lo save her from "Then it was from this philanthropic motive that you married ber?" queried the judge. "That certainly was uppermost in my mind." was Ihe reply. Continuing, Mr Caw said he believed that the woman's motive in desiring to marry him was to get rid of a man who was pestering her. Miss Caw's father asserted on Thursday that there was never the slightest suggestion of lovemnkinfr between Caw and his daughter. Once when the former was visiting them at Falkirk his daughter said that he was "after marrying her." They all ridiculed it. and said. "Take him out nnd drop him gently: don"t be too severe on the lad. as there is something wrons with him." The case was adjourned for a week.