EXTRAORDINARY CASE.
MANV ALLEGES, THAT, HE .WAS FORCED TO MARRY, .THREE PEOPLE ARRESTED, By, Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. Roceivod 9.22 a.in., Sept. 20. Sydney, Sept. 20. An extraordinary case is now before tho Police Court, in which Webb, a dentist, procured the arrest of two men named Cheeseborough and Marshall, occupying good positions in tho city, and a sister of the former, on a charge of having on Friday caused him to marry Miss Cheeseborough against his will. Tho prosecutor alleges that ho was seized by the men on Thursday night, taken to the Civic Club, there held prisoner and given something to drink which stupefied him, and also that they threatened him with a revolver if he made any outcry. In tho morning he was taken to a matrimonial agency and compelled to marry a girl. Immediately after the ceremony ho had the parties arrested.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1001, 21 September 1903, Page 2
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