MARRIAGE EVIL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3431, 24 January 1912, Page 7

MARRIAGE EVIL.

JUDGE SAYS REGISTRY OFFICE SECRECY FAVORS THE BIGAMIST.

When a registry office wedding was admitted at the Old Bailey by a man who pleaded guilty to bigamy, the Common Sergeant seized the opportunity to denounce the mischief to which a secret marriage sometimes led

Instead of being married i t a public pl.ee, where all people who knew tiie parties had an opportunity of hearing the ceremony, said the Common Sergeant, the parties went to a reg stry ofT'e. where in 999 eases out of WOO they weie not known, where the notice ‘was merely pinned up in a room. IT's caused more than half the Li-

ganiv in this country. If people wai t'd t.- be Ingeniously married, ill they had , do was to slip into a re.girYv office, and there' the marriage won! 1 i.e perl’oi med without notice to those who :.vio\\ them, without publicity, and witl none of the solemnity which ought to accompany marriage. ‘I think it might be as well,” mi fid hi; lordship, : ‘if the people in UVji places, who are considering how eisy ft i s to get rid of the marriage tie. would consider whether it would not he as well that in England, as in other countries, marriages should be -olein iisod with more deliberation, more publicity, and with real notice to those who" know the parties.”