HAPPY ETERNAL TRIANGLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1920, Page 4

HAPPY ETERNAL TRIANGLE.

NEW YORK, February 10,

After lengthy negotiations, Mrs Perley Spiker, wife of a recently demobilised American airman obtained permission for the mother of her husband’s child to enter the United States with her baby. When the girl, who is England and is named Emily Knowles, arrived in the steamer Lapland with a three months old baby the immigration authorities refused to allow her to enter the countries because she was an unmarried mother. She communicated with the Spikers, and after several days’ telegraphing and petitioning she was allow°‘ed to leave Ellis Island. It now appears that all the efforts to obtain Miss Knowles’ release were made by Milts Spiker., During the war her husband was stationed at a flying training camp in England. While there he met Miss Knowles. “My husband and Miss Knowles formed a friendship which ripened into something more than that,” says Mrs Spiker. “I have been fully informed of all the conditions of their friendhsip. I know the moral character and tendencies of my husband and I know them to bo beyond reproach. Miss Knowles is not immoral under the rules laid down by . the immigration laws. Sho is a lovable, gentle, refined girl, and I shall welcome her into my home.” guch is the apparently appealing personality of of the “other women that not only is Mr Spikcr’s lawful wife willing to vouch for her, and take her in without having seen her, but the fortunate flying husband has a brother w ho is willing to marry the girl oil no greater acquaintance. This morning Mr Spiker and his wife having come to New York to meet Miss Knowles, the happy eternal triangle joined together and departed joyfully for Baltimore and the bridegroom.