AE EXTRAORDINARY MARRIAGE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1199, 20 February 1885, Page 3

AE EXTRAORDINARY MARRIAGE.

A woman who has been frequently charged at Bow street Police Court, Loudon, with being drunk and cre» ating disturbances, was brought before Mr Yaughan on December 6, and simU larly charged, under most remarkable circumstances On the last occasion she suited that she was to have been married that morning but took too much drink the previous nigh*-, and was taken into custody. A nominal tine was then imposed which she paid. In the present instance evidence was called to show that she was found in a state of intoxication in the Easton road, and causing such a disturbance that it became necessary to remove her to the police station. A gentleman who was with her endeavoured to persuade her to accompany him, but she was stated to be so intoxicated that she would not listen to reason. She insisted upon returning to a house where she had previously lived. It now transpired that the gentleman with the prisoner held a commission in the army, and had married her on the previous Tuesday. In defence she asserted that she had been assaulted by her husband. The certificate of marriage was handed to Mr Vaughan, and in disposing of the charge the magistrate said it was a marvelous case. A man unfortunately ior himself, had contracted - a marriage with the defendant, who had got into such a state of drunkenness on her wedding day that she refused to accompany her husband, and sought to return to the brothel from which she had emerged. The very first day a man had sought to elevate her from her degradation she had betrayed his confidence. He (Mi Vaughan) could not understand a man acting in that way and considered it a most unfortunate step. He fined the defendant 40s, or in default a months imprisonment.