“NOT A CLEAN POTATO”

Taranaki Daily News, 28 January 1921, Page 3

“NOT A CLEAN POTATO”

WAR-TIMt MARRIAGE ANNULLED. London, 3O. The war-time meeting, short courtship, secret wedding, and a week-end honeymoon were features of a marriage annulled in the Court Session, Edinburgh, on November 27. Catherine Carr brought the action against John Robb, a New Zealand ex-soldier. The woman stated that she met Robb in Glasgow when he was on leave in 1917, and in July they went through a form of mafriage. “He told me at the time of the marriage that he was single,” she said. “We went for a weekend honeymoon, but kept the marriage secret. We did not take a house, and I continued my employment as a clerk in Glasgow. He admitted subsequently that he had beten married previously, and that when he returned to New Zealand he intended to take proceedings for a divorce from his first wife. He was wounded at the beginning of 1918, ‘and returned to New Zealand.” The Woman stated that in a letter to her dated June 13, 1918, he wrote: “I will be free in a few weeks from one of the worst womar' one could meet in a lifetime—one who tried to drag me down to«her own level, but failed to do so. ■Now she has gone to someone else in Sydney, whom she will drag down if he not h-is wits about him. She is difficult to deal with, as she is a shi’ewd Sydney barmaid.” He wrote in another letter “Perhaps I am not a clean potato, but she was the one who pulled me down. I am heartbroken to think that this woman stands betweeii. me and happiness. She is a rotter.” Miss Carr.said that if the man had succeeded in having his former marriage annulled she would have been prepared to marry him.