U.S. MAT!TRIAGE LAW COMPLICATTONS. NEW YORK, June 2. Members of the First Reformed Church of New Brunswick, New Jersey, have been perturbed by the news that the disappearance of Mr Shubel Siver, an ■elder of the church, early this week, coincided with that of an 18-years-old schoolgirl and of £1,500 of the church funds, and that the elder and the girl were married at the Connecticut town of Greenwich yesterday. Mr Siver, who is an elderly man. already has one wife to whom he has been parried for 25 years, andi is the father of three grown-up sons. He has avoided the obstacle to another union by taking advantage of the Gretna Green facilities offered by the State of Connecticut. Under its marriage laws a union contracted hy persons already married is not bigamous provided that the second marriage is ' not consummated within the State boundaries. The mother of the girl whom Mr Siver married while already having a wife, attended her daughter’s wedding. A warrant was Issued by the New Brunswick police yesterday for the arrest of Mr Siver ou a charge of embezzlement pf church funds
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1921, Page 3
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188Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1921, Page 3
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