A WAR MARRIAGE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18151, 24 January 1921, Page 3

A WAR MARRIAGE

NEW ZEALANDER’S TEMPORARY WiFE. (From Oub Own Cobbespondent.) LONDON, December 2. The TMune of a iNew Zealander, John Robo Giimour, whose last known address was Mlandovilie Hotel, Kaiapoi, ugured in the Court of Sessions at Eduiourgu on Saturday, when a Boots marriage was annulled. xne petitioner was Catherine Carr, a Glasgow woman, who said that she had first met respondent Giimour in April ot 1917, and they had married alter a short acquaintance. In the marriage registry he was designated as John Kobo, fruitgrower, New Zealand. Afterwards he told her that his name #as John Ross Giimour, and that he had been dismissed from the army, but rejoined. He never gave *her any money, , but borrowed from her and her iriends. 1 She learned that he was married only when she visited him at Hornchurch in/ December, 1917. He said that he had got a Californian divorce, which was not legal, but that he. would take divorce proceedings on his return to New Zealand and be free to re-marry Miss Carr. Giimour returned to New Zealand m March, 1919, and she had had several letters from him. In ode of these he said his wife was “getting in” first, and that as he would not defend the cose his wife would be a flying winner. His wife he described as a shrewd Sydney barmaid, while he himself was, perhaps, not a “clean potato.” He was, he said, broken-hearted that his wife should stand between him and happiness. Other letters disclosed that he was going to disappear into the bush until the case was over,_ as he might get a few years in if Miss Carr made a case against him. _ , ~ Miss Carr said her position was that it Robb’s marriage had been dissolved she would have heard from him, when they could have gone through a valid ceremony of marriage.