MARRIAGE BY NIGHT.
STRANGE IRISH UNION. APPLICATION FOR"NULLITY DISMISSED. [united press association —copyright] LONDON, Jan. 17. Mr Justice Kenny at Dublin held that the Usher marriage was invalid in the eyes of tho Roman Catholic Church, an 4 yet was capable of being validated, but was already absoluetly valid according to tho marriage laws of Ireland. The petition was for the. nullity of the marriage on the ground of Usher, the petitioner, being a member of the Roman Catholic Church. In a bedroom in his house at 10 p.m. he went through a ceremony, purporting to be a ceremony of marriage, with one Mary Caulfield, who was employed as a housemaid at petitioner’s house. Tho petitioner further said that the marriage should be declared null and void, as there was only one witness present, and as the ceremony w&s not carried out according to the rites, ceromonies and regulations of the Roman Catholic Church. The petition was dismissed, with costs.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3427, 19 January 1912, Page 5
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160MARRIAGE BY NIGHT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3427, 19 January 1912, Page 5
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