A WEDDING TRIP CUT SHORT.
Ax important arrest was made lately on board the Onion Royal Mail steamship Nevada, .which had arrived in Queenstown Harbour to embark passengers beforo proceeding to New York. A young musician named. Charles Howe, who had assumed another name, was discovered among the saloon passengers, with a young wife to whom he had been married only ono week. Sergeant Harland, a Leeds detective, took him into custody on the charge of having fraudulently disposed of a number of valuable pianos which he had hired out, on the instalment system, from Mr. W. H. Waddington, piano warehouse, Leeds, to the amount of £400. Mr. Wadding ton had accompanied the detective for identification. The charge having been made known to the accused man, a painful scene ensued. The young wife sobbed and cried as her husband was being taken away by the detective officers to the steam tender in waiting alongside the ship, and she watched her husband being taken ashore to stand his trial for fraud while she was being conveyed to sea on board the liner for New 1 urk.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9088, 23 June 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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185A WEDDING TRIP CUT SHORT. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9088, 23 June 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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