SECRET WELL KEPT

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 100, 21 October 1938, Page 4

SECRET WELL KEPT

Bi: SIN ESSMAN ’ S MAiUUAGE LONDON, Aug. 1. —A man who was happily married ior 3d years and never toiu anyone has. just tiled in Bournemouth, England, aged <O. xie was Lol. J. A. Hughes, C.B-, of Harry, for many years clerk io file Barry Council. Not even the colonel’s own family knew of his marriage until they were told of it by: his nephew at the funeral. Wlicn the colonel died a few weeks ago the council, not knowing that he had a wile and daughter, sent a telegram of condolence to his nephew. Captain J. B. Price Hughes, thinxing ho was the next-of-kin. Captain Hughes told the council of their •mistake; and they hastened to send another telegram to Bournemouth. No One Suspected. “There is not the slightest reason why the fact of my uncle being married should not be publicly known,” said his nephew. But t veil m his solicitor’s office, where lie worked for so many years, no one ever suspected that tne colonel was not a confirmed bachelor. tie used to spend all the bank holidays and a long time in the summer away from Barry and never sud where he was going. His daughter, Gwendolen Hilary Hughes, who is 32, will soon sit tor her final examination before .mourning a doctor. “We never even guessed, that- the colonel was married,” said a iltfifittier' of the staff of .Colonel Hugheti’ 1 business. “‘He was always a reserved mail, but tins is indeed a surprise-”