HEARTLESS DESERTION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 249, 20 April 1912, Page 9

HEARTLESS DESERTION

A G-IRL LURED FROM HOME. Sydney, April 3. A case has come to light in Melbourne in which a young man who had been sent away from England because of a tendency to wild living, induced his sweetheart, the daughter of a neighboring family, to come out and join him, marned her ,and then disappeared with her jewellery, dowry of CliO, and the marriage certificate. Telling the girl that he had got a good position in Sydney, he wrote asking her to come and be married. In hi s letter he enclosed a billhead of the lirm he said lie was working for. Tlie girl immediately left Home to join her lover. She was 'booked through to Sydney, and when she arrived at .Melbourne site was surprised ito see her intended husiband on the wharf. He explained that he had been sent over to Melbourne from Sydney on business, and he had arranged that they should get married that day and spend the honeymoon in Melbourne! The couple went to a private house; and the ceremony of - marriage, was gone through. The bridal pair then took up their quarters at the Melbourne Coffee Palace. For three weeks they stayed on, going everywhere and seeing everything. ® * Just as the young bride was preparing o go to feydney, and take up her house*keeping duties in the new home her Husband said was waiting for her, she received a cruel Mow One moraine she lose to find .her husband missing? and that her wedding-ring, marriage certiftcate, dowry and jewellery had disappeared. -For a week she waited, but there was -no sign of her husband ,°r f I 1"' pli - ffht the CitV \r ■ Mac i' il . v ' "f the Melbourne fT 'gentleman invoked iml f f P ' but witll °ut result, and finally lie collected enough monev to .send the girl back to England. Enquiries showed that the firm bv whom he husband 'was suppo,ed to be'employed 'was non-existent. ' The young wife arrived at her parents' home safely, and Mr. Mackav his since eecived a letter from the'mother of the young maill expressing regret at her son s act. .She thanked Mr. Mackav for his kindness to the unfortunate «i r l* and enclosed a donation to the mission funds