CHRISTCHURCH SENSATION.
A MARRIAGE DENIED AND PROVED-. [Per Press Assooiation.l CHRISTCHURCH, July 20. Tho sensational utterance of Thomas Long when before the S.M. Court last week, answering a charge of being found on premises without lawful excuse, was given no less sensational proof before Mr. Haselden, S.M., this forenoon. Long had stoutly maintained that a female witness for the. prosecution was his wife. The woman, on oath, no less stoutly denied it. iho case was adjourned to give Long an opportunity to find proof of the mairnige. To-dav Inspector McGrath produced a certificate of marriage .between Lone and Mflaine Lebeati, in IJu-j. Mr. Haselden said tlie certificate was hardly sufficient. He asked liow he •would connect the woman with it, Mr McGrath said, if necessary, he would produce the woman’s admission. Mr. Haselden said even if he was married to the woman .it would not give him an excuse for breaking into Moody s house, but having been in custody since tlie arrest no further punishment would ho inflicted. Long said he went to Moody’s house for food. Moody offered him £lO to take tlie woman, away and marry her. ,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2559, 21 July 1909, Page 5
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190CHRISTCHURCH SENSATION. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2559, 21 July 1909, Page 5
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