ENGLISH MOSLEM WIFE

Thames Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 18384, 4 July 1917, Page 4

ENGLISH MOSLEM WIFE

Tho taking of English girls and making them Mos.em wives was a very serious niiiitir, reniurked the Common Ser(Sir F. A. Bosanquet) at the O.d Briiry on March 23 when sentencing Ahiuu'd Hajar Allaan, a medical student, aged 23, to two months in the second division for making a false declaration for the purpose of a, marriage between himself and Ivy Abrey. ,

It wad alleged 'that in a notice of nuirr.age M the Islington registrar's he said Miss Abiey was 21, whereas she was only 17. The following day he cancelled the notice, and a few days later called on Miss Abrey's father at Herne Hill and produced a document, saying 1 thit Ha and the girl had been married in accrdanco with Mamie rites a«d thsijt tiu> bride's dowry had been fixed at £101.

Allam gave evidence and was asked

by counsel

: Is the wile, according to the. 'Moslem faiih, entitled to get a divorce from her husband?—rShe cam get no< divorce until every penny of her dowry has been paid. '•You can divorce a wife by the M.v hommetlan law by a singlo word, "Talak*"/—Yes, in the presence of a witness. Ivy Abrey (now Allam), called for th<3 defence, said she told the prisoner she was 20. | ''I did runt want Mr Allam to think I was quite a baby/ added the witness. When she M'oiijt before the registrar slie stud she was 21. Afterwards she told the prisoner she was (m i y 17 an( j nc wu6 very angry. Sho had, she said, then emjtaced Islam.