Married Because She Was Afraid
A pretty young bride of a month, who told the magistrate she married her husband because she was afraid of him, was granted a separation at Whitehall, Hampshire. Eighteen-year-old Rita Rout, whose home is at Gillingham, Kent, said the man she loved, a marine, Reginald Gamblen, was killed in , Palestine a week before her marriage to a 21-year-old plumber, Dudley Rout, of Oakhanger.
Rout had an ungovernable temper, frequently struck her and threatened to finish her with a chopper. “I thought perhaps I could alter him, but I know I never shall,” she declared. She denied that she married to give her unborn child a name. Rout told the court that Rita was a good housewife,-but they were both quick-tempered, and she tantalised him about the other man. He admitted tapping her, but said he did it only in fun.
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Northern Advocate, 23 January 1939, Page 11
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