A WAR MARRIAGE

Otago Witness, Issue 3489, 25 January 1921, Page 41

A WAR MARRIAGE

NEW ZEALANDER’S TEMPORARY WIFE. (From Our Own Corresi : ondent.) LONDON, December 2. The name of a New Zealander, John Robb GAmour, whose last known address was Mpuide vilie Hotel, Kaia-poi, figured in the Court of Sessions at Edinburgn on Saturday, when a Soots marriage was annulled. 'lire petitioner was Catherine Carr, a Glasgow woman, who said that she had first met respondent Giimour in April of 1917, and they had married after a short acquaintance. In the marriage registry he was designated as John Robb, fruitgrower, New Zealand. Afterwards ire told her that his name was John Ross Giimour, and that he had been dismissed from the army, but rejoined. He never gave her any monej, but borrowed from her and her friends. She learned that he was married only when she visited him at Hornchurch m 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 in March, 1819, and she had had several letters from him In one of these he said his wife was “getting in” first, and that as lie would not defend the case his wife would be a flying winner. His wife he described as a shrewd Sydney barmaid, while lie 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 cose was over, as he might get a few years in ’‘chink” if Miss Carr made a case against him. Miss Carr said her position was that if Robb’s marriage had been dissolved she would have heard from him, when they could have gone through a valid ceremony of marriage.