BLACK AND WHITE.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13738, 2 June 1913, Page 8

BLACK AND WHITE.

Through the notion the Judgo at London Sessions a happy ending to a romantic love story of « white girl for a black man was ma-do possible. A good-looking coloured man, Geofgo Wilson, 25, mirier, pleaded guilty to having maliciously wounded David Davies, also a minor, of Tre-dogar (Mon.). Mi Mac Donald. prosecuting, said the facts were soinowh.it peculiar and extraordinary. Prisoner and prosecutor had worked sid-e by i.;ic!o r.n minors for 18 months, and the form it h'.-.cl lodged with tho latter. Accused was a magnificent workman, and a powerful man, and bctwton him and prosecutor's daughter, aged 18, a friendship had sprung up. This ripened'into love, and a marriage was arranged. To this the stepmother of the girl assented, but tho father refused to sanction it. The unfortunate result was that the young couplo e^opod to London. The\ put up at an hotel in Beasonsfiold terrace, Hammersmith, and. although it was true, said the counsel, that they lived in one room, he could assure his lordship that prisoner had behaved himself absolutely as a gentleman. After arriving in London prisoner visited tho registrar's office and paid £2 lls. the foes necessary for a license. Moanwhile, the father, learning from tho stepmother the address of the runaways, journeyed to town, and, finding prisoner and his daughter, remonstrated with, the man. There wore' some high words betwee.7l them, and prisoner, in a fit of trimx'r struck j prosecutor on the jaw, fracturing it. •'I have had an opportunity ni speaking bo the father, tlie stepmother, and the daughter to-day." proceeded Mr. MacDonaid, "and the father, although j ho is heart-broken in the matter, has, I to use his own words, said to me: 'The Lord appeared to me last night and told me to behave in a Chri>stian-like way to this girl and man, although he is black.' " Prosecutor, went nn counsel, was a typical old man from Wales, and ho now had agreed to the couple being . married, so that probably, if tho man was released, thor would be made man and wife n-.'\t rlay.—Mr Wallace, K.C., in the circumstances, felt sure prisoner did not realise his strength, and did not intend the ecrious injury he had caused. lie would -1)0 bound over to come up for sentence tif called upon. "You have made them happy, my lord," remarked Mr. MacDonald, smiling, as prisoner left the dock.