A WAR MARRIAGE

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 19, 22 January 1921, Page 10

A WAR MARRIAGE

NEW ZEALANDER'S TEMPORARY WIFE. ~ .

(i'KOU OUR OWN / CORB3SPOMD3NT.)

LONDON, 2nd December.

The name of a New Zealandeiy Jolxn Robb Gilmour, whose last known addrosa was Mandevilld Hotel, Kaiapoi, figured in the Court of Sessions at Edinburgh on Saturday, when a Soot's marriage was annulled. 7 ■. The petitioner was Catherine Carr, a. Glasgow .woman, who said^fchat she had first met respondent Gilmour in April, of 1917, and they had married after a short acquaintance. In the- marriage registry he was designated as John Robb, fruit grower, New Zealand. Afterwards he told her that his name was John Eobb Gilmour, and that ho had been dismissed. from the Army, but rejoined. He never g»ve her any money, but borrowed from her and her frienda. She only learned that he wag married when she visited him at Hornchurch in December, 1917, Ho said, that he had got a Californian divorce, which was not legal, but that he would t*ko divorce proceedings on his return to New Zealand and be free to remarry Miss Carr. "NOT THE . CLEAN POTATO.;" Gilmour returned to New Zealand in March, 1919, and she had had several letters from him. In one of theso he said his wife: was "getting in" first, and that as he would not defend the caw his wife would be a, flying winner. His wife he described as a shrewd Sydney barmaid, while he himself was, perhaps, not a clean potato. He was, he said, broken-hearted that his wife should stand between him and happiness. Other letters (Hsclosed that he was going to disappear into the bush until i the case was over, as he might get a few years in "chink" if Miss Carr made a ! c»se against him. . Miss Carr said her position was that if Robb's marriage had been dissolved she would have heard from him, when they could havo gone through a valid ceremony of marriage.