BRIDEGROOM COMMITTED TO PRISON.
Love nwy laugh at locksmiths, hut it nwist a"t in ke fun of the High 1 oitrt of ('hat corv, Air Frede.rick Arthur Law, a.minor, had an opportunity of learning this salutary lesson ■he other day. He had, it sterns, married a young lad , ward of court, with a fortune of L7OOO, not only without the sanction of,he Judge, but win st under an express injunction not to write to her or address her in any way whatever He male false declarations as to his ago a ol hers to the clergyman, s uncl, he had, on the whole committed the crime of contempt of court in its most audacious form. He has accordingly been sent to prison pending an inquiry which the Vice-chiincellor lias ordered to be made into the validity of the marriage. There is no getting.oyer the fact that, rightly or wrongly, these young people have committed matrimony, and, after fretting qnd fuming over their conduct, the Judges can.oufy .say that' tljev ad betfei each p'ea'Tjptjc’ccmt au l, ulor a cautious sett ament ’ of rhe, ward’s prOpei ty;is itrmng.-d/mako the best ol an unpleasant business.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 985, 4 March 1881, Page 3
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192BRIDEGROOM COMMITTED TO PRISON. Dunstan Times, Issue 985, 4 March 1881, Page 3
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