ROMANTIC COURT INCIDENT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 135, 4 December 1909, Page 10

ROMANTIC COURT INCIDENT.

There was a dramatic meeting between husband and wife after forty years in the Pontypool County Court on ' 4.3 th October (an English journal reports). The incident arose out of an application made to the deputy judge to set aside an award in a compensation case, in which the woman, posing as the widow- of a collier named Morgan, was awarded '£281. The woman had received over £20, and the remainder had been invested on her- behalf, when the colliery company found that she had contracted a bigamous marriage, and that her husband, David Pritchard, was still living. Pritchard was called as a witness, and identified his wife. "How many years is it since I saw you last?" she asked. "I should say it is close upon forty years," he replied. Bursting into tears, the woman exclaimed, "I thought you were dead !" It seems that the woman remarried in her maiden name, and for the Miners' Federation (who acted on respondent's behalf)' it was stated that they acted in good faith. Mr. Parsons (for the- company) : We believe that eveiy 'one, with the exception of the woman, acted in good faith. His Honour : And possibly she did. I find, however, she is not the defendant. The order was made for the repayment of the money, but Mr. Parsons undertook that it should not be enforced. The woman fainted, and had to be earned out of court.