ELOPING GIRL.

Taihape Daily Times, 1 September 1919, Page 5

ELOPING GIRL.

SCOTS WEDDING AND PRISON FOR BRIDEGROOM_ How an 18-year-old girl eloped iromi Gloucester with a young demobillsedl American oflicer and wag iliarrie-i in! Seotlaiid was told in Edinburgh Sher-‘ Court. ‘ Raymond Hiles, an .-‘rmeriean stud-l: cut, and Marjory Evelyn Hiles' VVQI‘-3% charged with having suborned two hotel porters to act as witnesses to their marriage and falsely declare that they had been resident in Scotlzmrl for 21 days before the marriage. The two porters were also charged with making false statements that they knew the couple were’ resident in Scotland 21 days before the niarriage. Mr Henderson, solicitor, on behalf of the couple, said the girl was only 18 and her husband 24. She belonged to :1 respectable ’ Gloucester family, and his parents were well known in New York. The two met in Gloucester in 1917, when Hiles was an ofll'£e'l‘ ir. the American army. After he WES dcmobilised he proposed marriia-ge, but the girl ’s parents refused consent 11.11~ itil she was 20 years of age. lzT-he pair then eloped and came to ‘Edinburg, Where the niarriage took ‘place by declaration before the sheriff. After the marriage the young courile lreturned to England and booked two lfirstclass passages in the Olypmic for June 6_ Two hours before the boat'loft two detectives went aboard and arrested thm, and they were brought beck to Edinburgh. Shrilf Crole sentenced Hiles to two months’ imprisonment, and c‘lismissoil his wife with an admonition. The two hotel porters I-lVe‘l‘e Sentenced to la. nronths’y.imprisonxh:ent; _ H :