A Romantic Case.
[Pbb Pbsss Association.! INVEECAEGILL, lAaech 1. In May last a' somewhat romantic case came before the Resident Magistrate' here, when a woman named Mary Brown, or Queily, sought to compel James Brown, or Queily, a horse-trainer, to support her, on the ground thajt she waa married to him; in County Glare in 1878. Brown, Bhe maintained, left Ireland for New Zealand three weeks after the marriage and never wrote to her. - Some years later she came to the Colony, and traced Brown by reading a horse advertisement . to which his name was attached. ' He waa then on the West Coaot and came tb Invercargill, where he denied that he had ever seen her before, and, the woman being unable to produce proof of the marriage, the Magistrate ruled against her. Having since obtained a copy of the marriage certificate from Ireland, and a witness from the' West Coast to identify Brbwny she returned to the charge to-day and 'convinced the Court that Brown was her 'husband, although he again, by his counsel, denied that he knew anything about the' woman, or had eve,r seen her. Mr Eawson, E.M., said it waa- a nioßt heartless case, and sent Brown to gaol for three month's with hard' labour, and ordered him to pay five shitl,ings a week to his wife. '■- ■ ;■ "" ■' ■ '}y
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 4582, 2 March 1893, Page 4
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222A Romantic Case. Star (Christchurch), Issue 4582, 2 March 1893, Page 4
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