An Extraordinary Case
(I'EK TRESS ASSOCIATION.) Ixveucakgill, March 1. In May lust a case came before the Resident Magistrate here, when a woman named Mary Brown, sought to compel James Brown, horse trainer, to support her, on the ground that sho was married to him in County Clare in 1878. Brown she maintained, left Ireland three weeks after the marriage for New Zealand aud never wrote to her. Somo years later she came to the Colony and traced Brown by reading a hor.se advertisement to which his name was attached. He was then on the West Coast, and came to Inrercargill, whore Brown denied he had ever seen her before, and being unable to produce proof of the marriage, the M agis* [ trate ruled against her. flaring since obtained a copy of her marriage certifi* cate from Ireland and a witness from the West Coast to identify Brown, she returned to the charge to-day and con* yinced the Court that Brown was her husband, although he again, by counsel, denied that he knew anything about the woman or had ever seen her. Mr Rawson, H.M , said it was a most heart* less case, and sent Brown to gaol for three nioiUhs, with hard labor, «nd ordered him to pay 5s a week to his wife.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 108, 2 March 1893, Page 2
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215An Extraordinary Case Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 108, 2 March 1893, Page 2
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