A STRANGE REASON

Hokitika Guardian, 6 June 1930, Page 3

A STRANGE REASON

UOR ROY AND GIRL ELOPEMENT

By Telegraph-

—Per Press Assoeiauon

GISBORNE, June 5

Six weeks ago a girl aged fifteen years and ten months was missing from her home near Gisborne, and the police were informed. It was siibse(pintly ascertained that she had secretly married a youth aged seventeen years and two months, and the couple had loft on a honeymoon to Sydney. After arriving there, they were soon in financial di'ficultias, and their fares had to be sent by their parents to tiring them hack. The sequel came in the Magistrate’s Court to-day before Mr Harper, S.M., j wlii-ii the youth, whose name was old - : eroll to lie suppressed, was charged with making a false declaration on a I marriage certificate, where as be gave ; bis age" as twenty-two and the girl’s 1 age ns twentv-one. Amongst the witnesses was tin inrl’s father, who cave evidence that tb(> accused bad objected to witness’s , damditer being n waitress and Imd. '•n : d that lie would have to marry the j I and take her out if it. When 1 told by the girl’s grandmother tli.P he | would have to wait till the girl was ( wenfv-one years, the accused said lm was a f raid lm could not do so. I Wdimss bad told tin* accused that lie. would not allow bis daughter to be married till she was twenty-one years of age. Ip r-ro«« e-airon ; n" tbn ■-ihi'-si; 1 •' •’ »>» ?! 4 0(1 M’Of fl‘l nrr^f f !»*»{• Min f* '’ ' 1 I*'*'"* : I nr im: nrlmiUnfl H|f* l)*v dom. no barm In I bo i 'l’bo accnsoil nle-'Ji'' 1 ’• ’I v. am 1 ••••■><■• j :,, i*d to tin* Fupronm Court fo 1, j sentence. ■