STORY OF A COURTSHIP.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21159, 16 April 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)

STORY OF A COURTSHIP.

DETAILS GIVEN IN COURT.

How he came to marry a woman 20 years his junior was explained to tho magistrates £.t Solihull, near Birmingham, bv £ ;i 67-year-old man, Walter Hughes, a retired carpenter, who was summoned for persistent cr.ielty to his wife. " I will explain why I married the woman," Hughes began. " I was introduced to her by a young man who said stie would give ine lodgings. She gave me the ' inside ' history of her life, and said she wa:s lonely and had nobody to protect her. I said to her, ' Would you like to be my wife V She looked up at mo surprised. I told her to come to me in a fortnight's time and tell me her answer. When I asked her for that answer she said, ' Yes,' " " How you must have loved her! remarked the wife's solicitor, and asked Hughes whether he still liked his wife. Hughes replied by asking who would look alter her if he cast her off. On being ordered to pay 10s maintenance weekly. Hughes declared: "I might as well clear up and get out altogether.