TELEPHONE COURTSHIP.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 9 July 1907, Page 4

TELEPHONE COURTSHIP.

An amazing story of courtship by telephone was told at the Birmingham Police Court. Mary Whitehouse, a pretty girl of twenty, employed in a telephone office at West Bromwich, said ghe frequently had occasion to ring up the London and North-Western Company's office at Albion, and was usually answered by clerk named Robert Edwin Jones. A mutual interest sprang up, and they held long conversations over the telephone. They began to exchange confidences, and Jones stated that he was a single man with good prospects. They continued the acquaintance for several months without seeing one another, but finally an appointment was made, also over the telephone, and they met outside the telephone office. Afterwards they went for walks, and Jones frequently visited Miss Whitehouse and her aunt, and stayed to tea. All the appointments for these meetings were made by telephone, and there were many conversations over the wire. Three weeks before a baby was born to Miss Whitehouse the visits of Jones ceased. The telephone was again called into requisition to inform Jones that he was a father. Inquiries were made, still by telephone, and it was discovered he was a married man with two children. He admitted the paternity, and the magistrates made an affiliation order.