A Remarkable Marriage.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3125, 22 February 1879, Page 2

A Remarkable Marriage.

A marriage worthy of some notice took place at Hay, New South Wales, ojOhft 21st November. The bride (WriteT^W Age) was connected with ascertain *?a«#« celebre which recently attracted unptflcedented interest in this Colony, namely, the prosecution! and conviction of David Henry, late of Collins street, money lender, for embracery. It will'be remetatared that David Henry's troubles in the. civil and criminal courts originated in the alleged harsh and cruel manner in which he seized and sold the furniture, bedding, goods, and all the property belonging to Mrs Blakely Otawfdrd, who had been keeping a boardinghouie at St. Kilda. Mrs Crawford brought an action againjt Henry to recover damages for illegal distraint, and Would, according to good legal opinion, have recovered substantial compensation for the way in which she had been sold out of house f and home. It was for attempting to bribe 'the jurors who were toi'-try'/ thati action that David Henry was found guilty and sentenced to four years' ment in Pentridge. However,: before Henry's conviction, Mrs Crawford in order to earv a living for herself and her| children, found it necessary to acoept a situation as housekeeper' at an hotel in Hay/ Herein the course of her duties she became acquainted with- Mr (Peter Tyson, the well known squatter of Corrong station, a gentleman whose wealth is reputed to be something enormous, amounting, according to some accounts, to £3,000,000. Mr Tyson has been living as a bachelor all his, lifej and the numerous collateral members of. his family had not the slightest idea' thai he intended to marry - until Mrs Crawford appeared on the scene. No wonder-such a marriage has caused quite a flutter) in the circles through whom the sqtialting millionaire was accustomed to move. Mrs Tyson was the widow of thalatt Mr Sydney B. Crawford, J.P., of Adelaide,