MARRIED FOR FUN.
YOUNG COUPLES' ESCAPADE.
San Francisco, March 1. Two young couples were married this week in a spirit of freakishness. May Cook, aged 16, and Henry Rohr, aged 18, eloped to Redwood City, where they were married. At the same time Winifred Webb, aged 17, and Paul Connischonn, aged 19, who accompanied the first couple, thought that they might as well get married also, - and accordingly went through the ceremony. The second bride's father is the Attorney-General. He said he might move to have the marriages annulled, but had not yet decided what to do. Mrs. Connischonn's comment on the affair is: "I don't consider I'm married. I would have gone to a fishing party just as willingly. I thought the consequences were no more serious. It was a lark. I went along thinking I was making up a party." . Mrs. Rohr, referring to her newly-made husband, said : " I like him, but I'm not crazy about him. It was just a joke." The children will be sent back to school to complete their education. Their parents are unwilling that they should lire together until they come of age*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15552, 9 March 1914, Page 8
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