A FICKLE MINDED BRIDEGROOM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7824, 18 December 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

A FICKLE MINDED BRIDEGROOM.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE,

At the Chester Aseizes, before Mr. Justice Wills, Mary Jones, alias Richards, twenty five, pleaded guilty to a charge of falsification of a marriage entry on May 12 last, at Welehpool. The facts of the case, which are of an extraordinary character, were narrated by the Judge in passing sentonce. His Lordship said that one William Evans gave notice to be married to anotber woman, and attended on a certain day to bo married, but he came too late by half an hour, and could not be married that day. The wedding was fixed for the next day, but before that he would rather marry the prisoner than the other person. (Laughter.) The accused also seemed to have been willing to contract marriage at a very short notice, and she accordingly went to the Registrar, and represented herself as the other young woman, and got married in that name. She had committed a very eerioue offence; she had also brought a very heavy penalty upon herself, tor her marriage was illegal. William Evans, who had behaved like a sconndrel in this matter, had most rightly received severe punishment already, end the prisoner herself had been very properly brought to justic?, but ho thought she had suffered enough. She had been in prison five months' besides that punishment which she had brought upon herself of having contracted a marriage which was none. The sentence was that she should be imprisoned for one day, and that meant that she would now be discharged. If it was not that somebody else had led her into this disgrace he should have dealt severely with her.