ELOPING GIRL.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11906, 2 September 1919, Page 7

ELOPING GIRL.

SCOTS WEDDING AND PRISON EOR BRIDEGROOM. How an 18-year-old girl eloped from Gloucester with a .young demobilised American officer and was married in Scotland was told in Edinburgh Shreiff Court. 'TZZ Raymond Hiles, an American student, and Marjory Evelyn Hiles were charged with having suborned two hotel porters to act as witnesses to their marriage and falsely to declare that they had been resident in Scotland for 21 days before the marriage. The two porters were also charged with making false statements, that they knew' the couple were resident in Scotland 21 days before the marriage. Mr Henderson, solicitor, on behalf of the coujfle, said the girl was only 18 and her husband 24. Sbe belonged to a respectable Gloucester family, and his parents were well known in New York. The two met in Gloucester in 1917, when Hiles was an officer in , the American Army. After he was demobilised he proposed marriage, but the girl’s parents refused consent until she was 20 years of age. The pair then eloped and came to Edinburgh, where the marriage took place by declaration before the sheriff. After the marriage the young couple returned to England and booked two first-class passages in the Olypmic for June (sth. Two hours before the boat left two detctives went aboard and arrested them, and they were brought back to Edinburgh Sheriff Crole sentenced Hiles to two months’ imprisonment, and dismissed his wife with an admonition. The two hotel porters were sentenced to a mouth’s imprisonment.