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Hokitika Guardian, 23 October 1925, Page 2

AI! PEST AFTKIi ELOI’I'.AI ENT. I,OXI lON, Sept. 7. A voiing (M:isp)« couple's elopement h.,s In- 'ii 10l lowed liv their arrest oil hoard a yacht at Millport, on the Fil'tli o|' Clyde. .'iinl tlioir appearance at the HoUicsny Sheriff' Court. It. appears llmi while on a motor trip some months a ffO-ycarn-old mitsie teacher naineil Hugh Creanv, residing in Kiiiuing Park. CJlasgow, lieeame a'qtmiuted with Margaret Mcfmil. tin attractive woman, a few years his senior, who resides in I’artiek. Soon afterwards both Creanv and the womaii left home, and thov are said to have listed a niimher of towns in S'utland and In Ireland, where, it is understood, they were married. Peturning to Scotland, they stayed at tin hotel at Millport, which they left j when, apparently, their funds were ex- | tiattsted. saving they intended to take a walk round the island on which that town is situated. Subsequently two men who had come ashore from their yacht saw a man { and woman hoarding the vessel and rimed out to her. The man on hoard was trying to hoist the sail and to start the auxiliary motor, and as the owners approached a shot was fired. 'I he men returned to the shore and inlormed tile police, and then, accompanied by an officer, went out to the yacht again in a motor-boat. THE POI.ICK.MAX’S pipe. I lie police officer put his hand in his po l.et significantly, and. although all that lie held in his hand was a pipe the ruse succeeded, for the man in the vacht called out. "I surrender ’’ The man and woman were taken ashore in the motor-boat, and suhsenuenr charges at the Sheriff’s Court tin hided tlic.se of being in possession of a revolve: without a license, discharging the revolver to the danger of several persons, and obtaining lodgings without intending to pav for them. Pail was fixed in the sum of £ls each, and was paid for the woman.