PRODIGAL SON.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1047, 23 May 1912, Page 4

PRODIGAL SON.

A ROMANTIC CAREER

Some romantic incidents in the career ol a cleig> man's sou were described in ilm Emdon Probate Court last month, during the application for leave to presume the ueath of Mr Edward Sidduu Burrough, sou of the Rev John Burrough, formerly rector of Hillsborough, Norfolk. Counsel said that Mr iv S. Burrough was bom in 1864, and in ISBO he was apprenticed in the merchant service. Pour years later he went to Australia with his ship, and deserted, aud was afterwards convicted of stealing. In 1885 he returned secretly to his lather's bouse, and, under the mother’s directions, was secreted at the rectory loi sumo months unknown to the father. On October 31 d, 1885, he married a servant in his father’s service at Swaffham. Shortly after that be left his wife, aud he was arrested lor burglary at his father's rectory. He was convicted at the Norwich Assizes in 1880, and was sentenced to thirteen mouths’ hard labour.

In 1897 fhe wife went to live at Kirkby, Nottingham, and he visited her there, in June, 1899, he wrote a lcUe r to his sister, from Huddersfield. Since then nothing bail been heard ol him. In 1900 the wile saw in a Nottingham newspaper-an announcement of the wounding of Corporal Edward Burrough, at Graspan, South Africa, and she believed that to be her husband, and she also heard that the Rev John Burrough had been telling people that bis son was dead. In that belief she married in lyoi, Mr Alphens Toon, at Basiord, Nottingham. Alter the death of the father and mother proceedings were instituted in Chancery with regard to the share which young Burrough would be entitled to under the marriage settlement executed in xB5l, aud it turned out that the man Edmund Burrough, who was wounded in Africa, was alive, and

was not Ibe missing mail; Reave -was given tu presume the death since 1899.