TWO WOMEN MARRY.
GAOL FOR FALSE DECLARATION. riif.i* *ssociatiok- s* aucrato ttI.KUH U'H WON DON. September 90. A curious story waa told by two young Glasgow women, aged 86. who had gone through the marriage cereatony in order that they should not he separated. The story was told in the Greenock Court, when Mary Brown was sent to gaol for forty days for false declarations. . Brown, dressed as a man. induced a Catholic prifwt to perform the ceremony in 1926 and the two women thereafter lived together in Ireland. Brown reasiumina female attire, but werfcfn* fo lupport the other girl. tlie Magistrate described the case as a remark Aide affair, moat difficult to 4eeide.-—Australian Press Association
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19731, 23 September 1929, Page 11
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