BRIDEGROOM’S DAY OUT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 54, 28 October 1912, Page 3

BRIDEGROOM’S DAY OUT.

On the very day that had been fixed for Iris wedding, William Pledge, a builder, of Woldingham, stood in the dock at Dorking (England) Police Court charged with converting to his own use a bicycle belonging to his intended bride (Jessie Edo, of Holmwood), and an overcoat and bicycle, the property of her brother-in-law. It was said that when lie was arrested a fully-loaded revolver was found on him, together with a letter addressed to his father and mother, in which he said: “I know.l have been a had boy in my time, and now I’m going out of the world, which I think will be best. I am going to Dorking to see my Jessie to say good-bye. She is the best girl in the world.” Mary Fitzgibbon, wife of William Fitzgibbon, said she and Miss Edo left home with the prisoner on August 23rd to go to the bank to change a £2O cheque which prisoner had written out. for Miss Edo. Superintendent Coleman ; A supposed cheque ? Witness: Yes. Prisoner, she continued, told Miss Ede to casli the cheque while he went to got a drink. When witness got home she found her husband’s bicycle gone and a note saying prisoner had gone to Holmwood. She, her husband, and Miss Ede went to Holmwood, but could not find prisoner. They found among his papers a note stating that he and Miss Ede had agreed to die together, and also two farewell letters to his mother and sister. Prisoner had previbusly borrowed her husband’s coat and Miss Ede’s bicycle, and had disposed of them. Prisoner pleaded guilty to all the charges, and said lie/had suffered with his head owing to an accident, and did not know what he was doing. Superintendent Coleman said other cases of false pretences could have been brought against prisoner. He had got practically everything from his intended wife that she possessed, and she was now practically penniless. Prisoner was sentenced to four months’ hard labour.