MARRYING FOR SPITE.
AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE. STRANGE CONDUCT OF TWO IOUTHS. MARRY EACH OTHER'S MOTHER. Per Frcss Association. Dunedin, Last Night.
A peculiar disclosure was made at the City Police Court this morning. Karat Elizabeth McCaughan, about fifty years of aj»., sued her husband, Thomas J lector McCaughan, a young fellow of 21, fur mainteihiuce of herself and two children by 'her former marriage. i'he parties were married in October last, and had only lived together for three days. Air. Stewart explained that his client, .McCaughan, had married in a lit of spite, as tin; son of plaintiff had married his mother, and was about the same age
as McCaughan himself. The young fellow was receiving 15s per week, and was suffering from several ailments. The Magistrate said that it was one of the strangest eases that had ever been before the Court. He did not think it was a case for an order. The best tiling the woman could do was to take her husband home and look alter him-
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 87, 1 April 1908, Page 2
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171MARRYING FOR SPITE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 87, 1 April 1908, Page 2
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