WRONG HUSBAND CLAIMED

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 2 March 1935, Page 12

WRONG HUSBAND CLAIMED

Brings Innocent Cinema Attendant to Court

married man who was mistaken by a woman, who was a stranger to him* for hen missing husband and summoned at East Ham for neglecting to maintain her told a Daily Mail reporter of his extraordinary experience after the Court had dismissed the ease against him.

oome. very near to turning my happiness into misery.”

He is Mr. Harold Redvers Farrow, aged 33, a cinema attendant, of Essex, and he was summoned by Mrs. Mary Jane Bliss, who gave her address ns Florence Road, East Ham. “The whole business has nearly driven me out of my mind,” said Mr. Farrow. “Mv wife, whom I had told of the allegation against me, was in the court. When Mrs. Bliss insisted that I was her missing husband my wife collapsed and : had to be taken out.

Mr. Farrow left the court with the warrant officer, and on their return it was announced that he had a scar on his knee, but not on the one stated by Mrs. Bliss. Mrs. Bliss, who had stated that she was married in September, 1925, produced her marriage licence and an enlarged photograph of a' man in military uniform, which she said was given to her by her husband. Air. Wyatt Paine (the magistrate): It bears a very strong resemblance to the defendant. After the “scar” test described above had been performed, and the clerk had intimated that he had received some information from the Ministry of Pensions, Mr. Wyatt Paine said to Airs. _Bliss : “Clearly this person is not your husband. If yon wait outside the court the clerk will give you the address of your husband.” Air. Farrow was discharged “without a stain on his character,” and ' awarded £1 Is costs. Blllalfat«wirva«cf Ilf lltfllfflltf KiiiiiiiiiaaiitiiiiamtauiiiiiaMiiaiiiiißiamiiitaaiaamifiiaiiiiiiimr

“I first saw Mrs. Bliss about two years ago when she came to the cinema where I work. She declared then that she knew me, and she continued to come in from time to time and say the same thing. “I got more and more worried about it, and then a week ago I received the summons. It seemed incredible that anyone should- think I was a mysterious ‘Mr. Bliss.’ “I am very happily married and have one child, but this affair has

The fact that he had a scar on his left knee was part of Mr. Farrow’s defence a.t the court proceedings earlier in the day. Mrs. Bliss stated ‘ s ’ that her husband had a scar on his right knee due to a war injury.