WILT THOU

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 27, 31 January 1929, Page 2

WILT THOU

MAGISTRATE AS MATCHMAKER. BOTH SAID "YES.V SYDNEY. "Would you be willing to marry each otJier ? J ' Tiro tear-filled eyes of si 17.yeav-cld girl sought the; eyes of a worriodjlooking youth of iiJ at the Parramatta Court. Her facie lighted up —so did his. She sniiled through her tears, and together they turned to the? magistrate, Mr Jflynn, who had asked tiie question. "Yes," they breathed, together. 13ut the girl's stepfather spoke, "I don't want her to marry him, and I don't think her mother, who is in hospital would like it either," he said. Back came the worried looks ;ind the tears. The case was one in which Donald Seholl'el, 19, a carter, was charged with vagrancy, and this girl pretty, slim, aikl neatly dressed, with being uncontrollable, LIVING IN SHED. Constable Sly said that ho had found the couple living in the bush in a shed alt North Parramatta. They admitted they had been living together for three weeks, and had Christmas dinner together. The girl, said she had run away from home because her stepfather quarrelled with her continually about her coining home late at night ; and bocan so she had prevented him, whipping her young brother. In court, the stepfather said that thy! girl was uncontrollable, and had repeatedly abused him and her mo tiier

It was then that Mr Flynn, S M., ceggested that they should be mar ried. Ho adjourned the case for a week to enablq the polico to secure tlio mother's opinion regarding tne marriage, and to have th<; girl medically examined.