MARRIED TO A MADMAN.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3388, 1 December 1911, Page 7

MARRIED TO A MADMAN.

young wife tells magistrate A ROMANTIC STORY OF HER DESERTION.

A pretty girl, fashionably dressed, told the magistrate at Willcsden, Police Court, a romantic story of marriage and desertion, the truth of the narrative being vouched' for by the court missionary.

She said that a year ago she met a man,, and after a short acquaintance ho asked her to accompany him to Canada and there be - married to him. She consented, and they were married directly they reached Canada. Three weeks later he deserted her, and she came home again. A month later her husband followed her, and they lived together again. He was soon afterwards declared to tc insane, and was removed to an asylum. He was scon discharged as cured, but lie refused to live wit hlifer again, and his father took her to live with him. Her husband had now gone back to Canada, and she had received a letter from him that morning telling her ho did not wish to have anything more to do with her. She asked the nrwvtra.te if she could take proceedings against him. The missionary said ho had seen the man’s father, who told him tint his son.was insanec and not responsible for his actions when lie married the pirl. The magistrate said 'hah Hie .cniy course open to the aplicant was to »nak? herself chargeable to the parish, 6ml let the guardians take action.