Bride Aged 20 Gets Penny-a-Week Order

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 297, 30 November 1936, Page 8

Bride Aged 20 Gets Penny-a-Week Order

SEVERE CRITICISM FROM BENCH

Twelve weeks after her wedding a twenty-year-old bride, Mrs Gladys liwington, of Wandsworth, London, was granted a separation and one penny a week maintenance at South Western Police Court. She was severely criticised by the magistrate, Mr Claud Mullins, for marrying a man who was out of work. Iler husband, Frederick Arthur Ewington, of Webb’s road, Battersea, S.W., at the same time was sentenced to three months’ hard labour for stealing Ss from the gas meter at their lodgings. Mrs Ewingtojs, who was stated to have kept the home on her wages of 30s a week, said she did not know her husband was out of work when, they were married. “You are terribly to blame for having married this man while ho was out of work,” the magistrate told her. Mrs Ewington told the Daily Mirror? “I had known Fred for about a year before I married him. I liked him, and I married him because I thought that I should bo able to make him go straight in the future. But I have failed. I still love him-”

CLAIMS AN EARLDOM.

PROPOSES TO ATTEND KING’S CORONATION. Romance has swept in to the life of Mr Raymond Moulton O’Brien, of New York, who in 1928 was sweeping out a London office. He proposes to attend the Coronation as the Earl of Thomond. It was stated recently that the British authorities had acknowledged his claim to the title as a direct descendant of Percy Wyndham O’Brien, Earl of Thomond, who died in 1774. Mr O’Brien, who was born in Lonlon and received an English education, says that he was promoted from sweeping floors in a Texas company’s British office to tarring fences. Later he drove an oil truck, and finally settled in the United States. He learnt the secret of his birth from his mother, who married a direct descendant of the O’Brien family, ivhich migrated to the United States. The family had hitherto avoided claiming the title, as it did not wish to lose United States citizenship. Mr O’Brien says that as a boy he always thought that his father was Captain Guy Wilson-Weston, of the Indian Army, who married his mother after her marriage into the O’Brien family had been dissolved. Lord Inchiquin, who lives in Upper George Street, London, and who is a descendant of the seventh Earl of Thomond (who died in 1855, and with whom the earldom became extinct), told a reporter: “I do not think there is any claimant to the earldom alive, and I have never heard of Mr Raymond Moulton O’Brien, of New York, dr of his claim. I intend to investigate the position, and it is just possible that we may find that there is a ‘missing’ branch of the family in the United States.”