GIRL FIGHTS FOR HER MAN

Evening Star, Issue 20586, 11 September 1930, Page 7

GIRL FIGHTS FOR HER MAN

ABDUCTION CHARGE WHAT IS THE USE OF ' MARRIAGE? “So far from the man abducting the girl, we think that she abducted him, and the charge will bo dismissed,” said the Chairman at. the West Riding Police Court, at Leeds, when Luther Lowther, a young gipsy horse dealer, was accused of abducting Violet Larner from Ycadon Moor two years ago. The girl, called by the police, gave evidence that she left home because her mother tlirashed her for going to the pictures. Superintendent Harrison: For any other reason?—Yes, because I wanted the man and asked him to take me away. “ I HAVE GOT THE MAN.” But did not your mother tell Lowther in your presence that you were not eighteen?—Never, he knew my age. Did not he give you any encouragement to go away?—No. 1 begged him to take mo, and we went away as man and wife. Mr Atkinson, who said ho would have called tho girl for the defence if the police had not caljed her for the prosecution, asked her if she was prepared to marry Lowther. “Yes, any day,” replied the girl, “but what difference docs that make? What is the use of getting married? 1 have the man.” Tho chairman stopped tho case. The young couple embraced outside tho court, and were immediately surrounded by a band of gipsies, who escorted them away. Violet Lamer is the girl for whom her parents searched the country for two years until they found her.