BOGUS MARRIAGE
RUSE OF TWO GIRLS. (united Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, ; September 21.* A curious story is told of two Glasgow young women, both 26 years of age, going through a marriage ceremony in order that they should not be separated; The story was told at the Greenock Court, when Mary Brown was sent to gaol for forty days for making a false declaration. Brown dressed as a man, and then induced a Catholic priest to perform the marriage ceremony in 1926. Thereafter the two lived together in Ireland. The woman Brown reassumed female attire but she worked to support the other girl. The Magistrate described it as a remarkable affair that was most difficult to decide.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1929, Page 6
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118BOGUS MARRIAGE Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1929, Page 6
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