A Strange St ory.
A extraordinary case came before a! bench of Magistrates m -Melbourne the other day^ jAn elderly f wonia|, calling; hersfelfc Maxv JSt6 ( orev,nee, GleesQi^ sought j mainteh&Tjce ff'om Frederics W* Moore, i in-jyears gone by a seaman, then, a labouring a landsman, and i^laitVerly 'a, tobacconist. ...Her story was that m; 1862 she was' married to Jitoore; tbati they had lived > together m the: aurburbs! of; Melbourne }. th,at, two girls w^re hprni ot the marriage; that they-Vatterwr'ards ■ went into furnished lodgings' in Garlton, ; ■then Mooro left nerj. 'saying he jyss; going -to at* ; and from that time till quite lately sjie had ; neither seen por heard of hiiti, though a warraut foi i.Vjiisi arres'ti fojr .'^^er.tib|(i|[';iiad' ..been.' m -the hnodsoftkls police for yearsi fin the] other hand, the' defendant, who admitted ' : iugi;been^n:ie!il^tf VM^O^ Gieesci^" at St Francis* Church, m Melbourne m klßj6|2^,ana :^sp^ j^MiKe^- .recollection of j place, persons', and " events to which; 'dQmplainanji .referred; declared eihphati-' cally that the defendant' 'did" hot ;be(arj ♦• fafntesb'*''reßeVnblaHce " -to hisj oii l de '.^ tS^^Snd^ltised: toi: recognise! her ns^such. The Biencli were ' 'unalilef to come to any decision m the face ofi Bcich extraor^in'ary testimony, and adrl jourued^b^aS^forl the production of j ! f ui ther "BWdftpci,' 3 : X : X -V. -'.',' . |
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1662, 19 March 1886, Page 2
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210A Strange Story. Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1662, 19 March 1886, Page 2
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