AN EXTRAORDINARY MARRIAGE.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 957, 8 March 1910, Page 2

AN EXTRAORDINARY MARRIAGE.

An extraordinary account of a marriage at St. lliles' registrar's olliee, bindon, was given at Bow-street recently, when William English Carson, of Alon-tngue-strcet, was accused of making a false, entry in «, marriage register, lit was stated that an appointment with the registrar for Gth October was not kept, but another was made, and on the following day Carson and his wife, who was then Miss Margaret Aim Davis, ! arrived at the registrar's office. Carson j appeared to have been drinking, but when the. registrar asked the bride, who was very agitated, if lie was in a tit state to go through the ceremony, she replied, "Oh, quite, Ho is doing tiiis on purpoic." The registrar suggested that the wedding should be postponed, but the britle implored him, with tears in her eyes, to proceed with the ceremony, adding, "You do not know what this means to me. I cannot go home to my father unless I take home the marriage certificate." "Do you quite understand why you are here?" the registrar asked Carson.

"Yes'," was the reply, "to marry this thing."

, "Mo you wish to marry her?" the registrar asked. "No," Carson stated, "but if she insists I have no objection." Once more the registrar attempted to persuade them to postpone the marriage, b'itt tlie bride again implored him to proceed, and Carson exclaimed, "Get on with the marriage," so lie married them,

Carson tried to snatch flic ring from the bride's' finger after he had placed i l there,'and attempted to leave the office without signing his name, but the bride induced him tij return. He wrote in the register a scratch resembling "John Jones," and told the bride, "I am off to 'America, and you will never see 'my face again."

He then left the office alone. "I aiu sure any jury would return a verdict of Not Guilty," the magistrate stated, "and I shall not send Carson for trial."