MARRIED AGAINST HIS WILL.
A QTJRIOUB PROSECUTION. Per Press Association. Sydnei, September 20. An extraordinary case ia now before the Police Court, in which Webb, a dentist, procured the arrest of two men named Cheereborough and Marshall, both oscupying gootl positions in the city, and the sister of the former, on a charge of having caused him to marry Miss Obeeseborough against hie will. Prosecutor allied be was seiz d by the men on Thursday nigh*, taken to the Civic Club and tbere held prisoner, being given something to drink which stupefied him; also thai they threatened him with a revolver if he made an outcry. In the morning he was taken to a matrimonial agency and compelled to marry the girl, but immediately after the ceremony he had the parties ar r Pßte^.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 20, 21 September 1903, Page 3
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134MARRIED AGAINST HIS WILL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 20, 21 September 1903, Page 3
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