A SOLDIER’S SEARCH FOR A WIFE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1594, 14 June 1887, Page 3

A SOLDIER’S SEARCH FOR A WIFE.

Private William. H«I1, of the 64ih Foot (North Staffordshire Regiment), was charged at West Bromwich with being absent without leave from his regiment on the previous night- The prisoner is the man who seme weeks ago wrote to the Chester Board of Guardians asking them if they ccnld find him a wife. The letter found its way into the newspapers, and has brought Hall some 800 replies from i'll parts of the country from young women willing to throw in their lot with him for batter or worse. On Friday night the prisoner absented himself from duty for 1 lie purpose of visiting one of the girls, with whom he had made an appointment at Stourbridge. This young woman wrote from Bromsgrove, and stated that she was the daughter of a farmer, but added that hur father was dead. He had, however, left her £l2O in money, and she was now getting a very good living, and saving a little, which she was putting in the bank. She was living in a house with a servant girl, but she thought of getting married, as a good husband would be useful to her to attend to the cows, and she was sure they could do well together. She was going to take a farm in Gloucestershire, and do one would know where they had gone to. [f he meant business and in* tended leaving the army, she would buy Lira out with her own money, if they 1 kod each other ; but to be sure ho would not make 0 fool of her, she asked him to send her railway fare to Lichfield, and she would give it back when ahe met him. She enclosed her photograph, and requested him to send bis, so that she would know him when they met. If he was true he would always have a good home and a hard-working wife. The sequel to all this romancing was that the prisoner was remanded in custody to await an escort from, bis regiment.