BOY BRIDEGROOM

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23050, 30 May 1938, Page 6

BOY BRIDEGROOM

MARRIES GIRL OF 18 FORGED CONSENT DOCUMENT [from ottb own correspondent] BYDNEY, May 23 So that a youth of 15i might marry ct girl of 18, he and two young men forged what purported to be his parents' consent to the marriage. In the Quarter Sessions, before Judge Thomson, the youth, Arthur Godwin Glover, Joseph Cyril Amy, aged 20, and Boyce Phillip Fox, aged 24, all pleaded guilty to the offence. Glover was bound over to he of good behaviour ,for five years and Amy and Boyce for four years. The offences were committed on January 14 and the marriage- took place next day after a whirlwipd courtship. Detective-Sergeant Geldart said that Fox was simple-minded. He received nothing for what he had done, but Glover had promised him £1 as payment, which he was unlikely to get. Amy was married and apparently committed the offence for no material gain. Glover possessed more intelligence than the others put together. It appeared, said the detective, that Glover had an utter disregard for anyone in authority % Since his marriage he had left his wife. Outside the Court waited the married couple's parents. "We want him to come with us," said the wife's mother. "We want him to come home with us," said the husband's parents. The boy glanced sideways at hie voung wife, and obediently walked with his own parents. Glover said that he had pawned his bicycle to pay the clergyman's fee.