MARRIED AT FIFTEEN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 156, 19 November 1912, Page 4

MARRIED AT FIFTEEN.

AMAZING CASE IN AUCKLAND. Buying the a divorce ease vJI V^t 10 Coiirt at Auckland on fndaj, his Honor Mr. Justin Cooper found occasion to remark upon the foolishness oi a . v ou„g gin J,/ marrying a man about whom she knew wry little In the ease in question, the petitioner was barely 15 years of age when sh« married the respondent, bufshc had tie full consent of her parents, who were present at the marriage. His Honor eVpressed surprise that any parent" could such an age, especially when little was onTlived Although , ,- K» ,|h hSS wife olev ™ month*. hreS tnnf I" , atr «*™*- at times uneaten ng to shoot her wit bout any proyocaion whatever, and ultimately ft J™ C 'V her; nothing™ heard of hnn for over 13 years, until he appeared on „ serious charge at the as , or ™ S< fl Ol, Tr thiS f'me under anothei name H, s Fonor rPmnrk , t , feet that while the law protected ~ marked girls under the age of Hi the e was no law that they should not be ma,. Iw T ?.,F ant,l1 £ » ll «ree nisi ] lO s aill that petitioner would be well ,-id of the man, to which she sm il ingly acquired?