A Soldier in Trouble.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 11, 5 July 1887, Page 4

A Soldier in Trouble.

Private William Hall, of the 64th Foot, (North Staffordshire Regiment), was charged at West Bromwich, lately, with being absent without leave from his regiment one night. The prisoner is the man who some weeks ago wrote to the Chester board of guardians asking them if they could find him a wife. The letter found its way into the newspapers. and has brought Hall some

800 replies from all parts of the country from young women willing to throw in their lot with him for belter or worse. On the night in question the prisoner absented himself from duty for the purpose of meeting one of the girls, with whom he had made an appointment at Stourbridge. This young woman! wrote from- Bromsgrove, and stated that she was the daughter of a farmer, but added he was dead. He had

left her £l2O in money, and she was now getting a very good living, and saving a little, which she was putting into the bank. She was living in a house with a servant girl, but she thought of getting married, as a good husband would be useful to her to attend to the cows, and she was sure

they could do well together. She was going to take a farm in Gloucestershire, and no one would know where they had gone to If he meant business and intended leaving the army she would buy him out with her own money, if they liked each other ; but to be sure he w- uld not make a fool of her she asked him to send her railway fare to Lichfield, and she would give it him back when she met him. She enclosed her photograph, and requested him to send his, so that she would know him when they met. If he was true, he would always have a good home with her and a hard wonting wife. The sequel to all this romancing was that the prisoner was remanded in custody to await an escort from his regiment.