A CURIOUS STORY
FAKE WEDDING CEREMONY WOMEN’S STRANGE ACT (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Australian and N.2. Press Association.) (Received September 21, 3 p.m.) LONDON, September 21. A curious story of two Glasgow young women, both 26 years of age, going through a marriage ceremony in order that they should not he separated, was told in the Greenock Court, when Mary Brown was sent to gaol ior 40 days for a false declaration. Brown, dressed as a man, induced a Catholic priest to perform a ceremony in 1926, and thereafter the pair lived together in Ireland, Brown reassuming female attire, but working to support the other girl. The magistrate described the remarkable affair as most difficult to decide.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17062, 21 September 1929, Page 15
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118A CURIOUS STORY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17062, 21 September 1929, Page 15
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