Peculiar Case.
[By Telegraph,)
INVERCARGILL, March 1,
In May last a somewhat romantic case came before the Resident Magistrate here, when a woman named Mary Brown or Quei’y soucht to compel James Brown, a horse trainer, to support her on the ground that she was married to him in County Clare in 1875. Brown, she maintained, left Ireland three weeks after hia marriago for New Zealand, and never wrote to her. Some years later she came to the colony and traced Brown by reading a horse advertisement to which his name was attached. She was then on the West Coast and came to Invercargill, where Brown denied that he had ever seen her before, and being unable to produce proof of marriage the : magistrate ruled against her. Having since obtained a copy of the marriage certificate from Ireland, and a witness from the West Coast to identify Brown, she returned to the charge to day, and convinced the court that Brown was her husband, although he again by his counsel denied that he knew anything ! about the woman or had ever seen her. Mr , Eawson, R.M., who said that it was a most heartless case, sent Brown to gaol for three months’ hard labour, and ordered him to pay 6s a week to his wife.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 7082, 2 March 1893, Page 2
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