PRINCESS AS BRIDE

Evening Star, Issue 20510, 14 June 1930, Page 15

PRINCESS AS BRIDE

HOW A CLUB MAID LONDON, April 23. Tho marriage of a London omnibus driver and a. girl of twenty who described herself as a Russian princess was disclosed at Tower Bridge Police Court on Saturday. Tho omnibus driver, Frederick Baker, thirty-five, of Maryland road, Bowes Park, N., pleaded guilty to a charge of bigamy, and was committed to the Old Bailey. Bail in £SO was allowed. Alla Dimitrievna Baker was called, and ; she seemed reluctant to give evidence, but in answer to the magistrate she said that she was willing to abide by what she had already stated. She said that she was a linen maid employed at the Union Club, Lower Regent street, W. She was married to Baker on March 26, 1921, at the Islington register office. They lived together for about eighteen months, when be disappeared, and she neither heard nor saw anything more of him until a few days ago. Alice Mary Stevens, a housekeeper, said that she went through a form of marriage with Baker, who described himself as a bachelor.

A policeman said when ho told Baker that be would be charged with bigamy, Baker said: “ Yes, that is right. I have dreaded this day. We have been so happy.” The woman, in the marviag certificate for tho ceremony referred i, is described as Alla Diniitrievitch Mescherskaia, twenty, spinster, princess (Russia).