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Manawatu Times, Volume XLII, Issue 1734, 9 February 1921, Page 9

ONE RING FOR TWO WEDDINGS. A peculiar story was told at Edinburgh Sheriff Court recently, when a young woman pleaded guilty to a charge of having contracted a bigamous marriage in Edinburgh in January, 1919. On behalf of the accused, Mr John Robertson, solicitor, said that in 1916 the sister of the accused was married to a Canadian' at Middlesbrough. The best man, also a Canadian, asked the accused, who was the bridesmaid in the wedding, to marry him. She refused, but at the door of the registry office she was prevailed upon, and she agreed. The marriage was carried through, but to prove that there was no premeditation, the one wedding ring had to suffice for the two ceremonies. The girls stayed with friends, and the men left for France that night. On returning to France, the agent said, the husband of the accused wrote saying how much he regretted the step he had taken. The girl replied that she had been very foolish and impulsive. After being demobilised ho; returned to Canada, but he did not ask her to join him. After three years she thought, she was free to marry again, and went through a form of marriage with a butcher. The Pro-curator-Fiscal (Mr H. H. Brown) agreed that it was a case for special consideration. ■ Sheriff Crole put the accused under caution of £5 for one year. He thought it was an exceptional case. For children’s racking coughs, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 1/9,