GRETNA GREEN BRIDE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20643, 15 February 1929, Page 14

GRETNA GREEN BRIDE.

COUPLE ON PROBATION. ■ “ NO ROMANCE IN THIS.” \ TJT tty f^‘ year *°Id fihd, Jemima Ro.<a orMDowalh and her husband, Samuel ii Dowall, ag6d 21, street musician, after figuring in a romantic elopement and sub sequent marriage in the famous blacksmiths shop at Gretna Green,, faced an other phase of life at Govan. There they were charged with appropriating: articles belonging to the bride’s foster mother. ■The foster mother stated That she haa brought up the girl since infancy. On November IO witness missed some sheets pillow-slips, and a .pair of shoes. Previ ously M’Dowall had called at thc- hous ■ and had taken her foster daughter to the pictures. They never returned, but she heard later that the couple went to Gretna Green and were married. The magistrate : What 'was their -idea of going to Gretna Green to get married"/ The man: My wife’s foster mother would never have allowed us to get married. Did you go by rail? Yes, we went by excursion. ' .. The magistrate: There is no romance in this at all. You could have been married in Glasgow. Now all the gilt is off the gingerbread. lam surprised at a girl of 17 rushing into matrimony at the present time of dull trade and no employment. I don’t know what you have both been thinking about. Asked for the certificate of marriage, M’Dowall produced a slip of paper Bearing an- embossed reproduction of the famous blacksmith’s shop, at Gretna Green.

TJie magistrate then out the couple or probation for 12 months, and, expressing the hope that this would be a lesson to them, trusted that they would stand by each other through thick and thin.