BRIDE'S AMAZING ADVENTURE

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 206, 28 August 1920, Page 19

BRIDE'S AMAZING ADVENTURE

. , MARRIAGE AGGRAVATED AX OLD < FRIEND. f A remarkable story was told at Colchester last month, when Percy Yaxley, clerk- to.a ' Arm of London furriers, was charged with f stealing a watch, three dresses, and other < articles from Mrs. Doyle, the bride of a < solicitor residing at P.rightlingsea, Essex. Evidence showed tbat defendant, a married man. had been on friendly terms with Mrs. Doyle for many years. Three weeks earlier she married Mr. Doyle, and it was stated that shortly after the wedding she wrote to defendant saying she wished he was with her. HIDES IX CT.TBOARD. A few days later she was alone in her house at Brlghtllngsea. when defendant demanded admission. She refused and bid in a cupboard, but defendant broke ln, searched the house, cut the sleeve off a blouse belonging to Mrs. Doyle, and went off. He returned shortly after, and she again hid Ih a cupboard. When defendant had gone she found her clothing had disappeared. Cross-examined, Mrs. Doyle said she was afraid of defendant, who once nearly choked her because she looked at another man. She added that ber only chance of getting away from him was to marry Mr. ■Doyle. Mrs. Doyle then collapsed in the witness box. On recover}" she said she believed defendant took her clothing through jealousy, and not with felonious intent. Hr-r innrrlage had aggravated him. The case was dismissed on defendant undertaking not to again molest Mrs. Doyle.