PHANTOM MARRIAGES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8333, 3 June 1905, Page 4

PHANTOM MARRIAGES.

♦ STRANGE STORY OF A LADY'S DELUSIONS.

With pleasant smile and affable bow, Miss Agnes Letitia Burrow, of Morecambe and Arnside, appeared before Mr T. H. Fischer.. K.C., one of the Masters in Lunacy, at Lancaster, on April 13. Mr Fischer and a jury were inquiring into Miss Burrow's sanity, on the petition of her nephew and heir-at-law. Mr Tobin, K.C., for Miss Buriow, admits delusions, but urges that they are harmless. ' It is alleged, on behalf of the petitioner, that Miss Burrow believed she bad communication with the spirits of dead people. She had been known to put out slices of food for them, and tramps had come and eaten them. She also believed, she was the granddaughter of Queen Charlotte, and that she was married when she was live years • of age, and that she had three hus- J bands at one time. She carried about : a shawl wrapped, up as a baby. Another I delusion was that Queen Victoria or : Queen Charlotte went to live at Lancaster in the name of Burrow. In the course of her evidence Miss Burrow assured the Court that her father married the Queen of Morocco, though she (the witness) was not the offspring of that union. She claimed descent from Queen Charlotte and George IV., and in childhood had paid a tisit to Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle.. ■ Mr Shee asked if the. witness herself had never been married. " Oh, yes," was her reply. " I married three gentlemen when seven years of age. Two of them were English twins, and the other was an Indian gentleman." Asked if she had ever seen Queen Victoria, she said : " Oh, yes. I lodged in the same house ' at Gloucester Gate, London." hearing was adjourned. ' i