ON THE QUIET.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 266, 10 November 1938, Page 13

ON THE QUIET.

YOUNG COUPLE WED I BRIDE WAS ONLY 19. PARENTS REFUSED CONSENT. HTTSBAJfD IN POUCE COURT. As * srqriel to his marriage to a ) !( . v ear-old girl. on An-.wt 2_', against the " f lll, r I'll renin, the bridegroom. 1 'horni \ |,en Prinsrle, ayod 22, appeared on summons in the I'olico Court, before Mr - ( '- l; 4,r '' Walker. S.M.. t ,,dav on 11. charge of Wilfully making „ 'false statement. touching particulars required to l.e know a under Iho Marriage Act. I'.His. I i inyle, who hi* wife's ago a* -I. when lir ti I led in a form at the I" :i ~ t r.i i s ( Mlire oil Augiii-t I!), was i "in milt ed for sent cure. "Hope You Won't Be Wild, Mum." Mr-. I,i 11 ia n W \ nor -aid lirr daughter I 111 iti n vv as not. quite JO years old. Viii-nl. win, ,|,i' Had known for some > earhad on two or, a-ion- a-kr,| w il soul to mariv lirr daiiyhtcr. hut .-hi' 11.i• I always refu-ed. On -rvrial -i" 11 - i! ii ii n- i'ii. |~i ,i t'r w month-. ' iiirjle hid i 111 ■11 a( lirr hrni-r and had '•ikni hi" 11 a u:: lit rr l.illiau for a dr i \ <•. Ihr l.i-t ori-a-iou was a.m. on August "At II.." 10 a.m. the same dav I was at my -i-trr in la w's |,|arr in Ix iug-la ml A v rii lie when arrusnl and my dauyhter arrived in a car." -aid Mrs. 'Wymrr. "I unit out to f-pca k to thr m. ' In the |iieoriirr n| ariu-rd iii y daughter said. 'I liojic von won't he wild with me. Mum, as we ha vi' lieen nianicd this morning. I't iny lc did not make iiiiv comment. I.atrr the same da\ I went to tlie registrars ollirr with my husband. My dauyhler has been a cripple priK't icrtl ly from birth, and I did not think she was in a tit. condition to take on the responsibilities of a married woman. 'Ibis was why I objected to her marriage." Witness said she later made a complaint to the police. Admissions to Police. According to a statement which lie was alloyed to have made and signed in the presence of Constable M. O'Brien, who produced it. I'rinylo said lie was married to Mi<« Lilian Klsio Wvmer at the registrar's otlire on August 22 last. Il« had known hin wife for the past »ix years, and about two years nyo he hoarded with the Wytner family for six month*. lie knew that his wife, at the time of his marriage to her. was 1!* years of aye on November 21. last. "At the time I lillod in and signed the mnrriago forniH for the registrar I well knew that I was making a false declaration with respect to the aye of my proposed wife," added I'rinylo in his statement. "Some month* previously I asked both Mr. and Mrs. Wvmer for consent, to marry their daughter, who was tinder aye to marry without their consent. L did everything possible to obtain her parents' consent, but this J was tumble to obtain. Altliouyh my wife had been receiving an invalidity pension for tho past six months, her health has now improved and she is not a cripple. I consider that I could have obtained Mr. and Mix. Wymer's consent to marry their daughter had she not been receiving a |x'iisioii from which the parents derived yain. At the time I madfl the false declaration about the aye of my wife, I did not disowns the matter with her and she did not know until after our marriage that I had made a false dcehirnt ion.

"At the time I Piade the false declaration I knew I was doing wruii;'. but I wanted to marry the girl and that was my only way out of the difficulty. On Tuesday, August '-.'I, Mr. Ilenrye W'ymor ■nformed me that the detectives were on iny trail and that I would get six months for a false declaration."

Countable O'Brien said he had known accused for throe months and had found him quite reliable and honest. Accused pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court for fontonce. Mail was allowed in a suretv of £100.