A WAS MARRIAGE

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14585, 7 February 1921, Page 2

A WAS MARRIAGE

"NOT A CLEAN POTATO." The name of a New Zealander, John Robb Ollmoiir. whose last known ml dress was Mandeville Hotel, Kalapoi, figured In the Court of Sessions a' Fdinburgh recently, when a Scots marriage was annulled, slates a London correspondent of December 2, to an exchange. The petitioner was Catherine Carr, i Glasgow woman, who said that she had first met respondent Gilmour in April, it 1017. and they had married -after a short acquaintance. In the marriage registry he was designated as John Ribb, fruit-grower, New Zealand. Afterwards ho. told her that ins nam" was John Robb Gilmour, and that he pad been dismissed from the Army, b'll it ioini'il. He never gave her any money !>ut borrowed from her and her friends She only learned that he was married when she visited him at llornchurch in December. 1917. He said lie had got a Californian divorce, which was not legal, hut that he would take divorce proceedings on his return to New Zealand and be free to marry Miss Carr. Gllmour returned to New Zealand in March. 1919, and she had had several letters from him. In one of these he so;d his wife was "getting in" first, and that as lie would not, defend the case his wife would be a flying winner. His vit'e he described as a shrewd Sydnej barmaid, while he himself was, perhaps, not a clean potato. He was. he 3". id, broken-hearted that his wife should stand between him and happiness. Other fctlers disclosed that he was going to disappear into the bush until the ease was over, as he might gut a few years in "clink" if Miss Carr mode a case against him. Miss Carr said her position was that if Robb's marriage had been dissolved she would have heard from turn, when they could have gone through a valid •ceremony of marriage.