EXTRAORDINARY AFFILIA TION CASE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 253, 5 December 1872, Page 6

EXTRAORDINARY AFFILIA TION CASE.

At Nelson, on tbe 19th Nov., Jacobine Reimers, whom the Colonist describes as "a quite genteel-looking woman, " sued one Robert Diedrich, known by the name of Carl Blecher, to compel the maintenance of three illegitimate children. The complain* ant's evidence was given as follows : — I first met defendant in June, 1867, in Kiga. I was living with a family named Johnson as their adopted child. I was a dressmaker. Defendant was foreman of a cement manufactory. He was very kind to me, and proposed to marry me. I consented. There was a ceremony of betrothed, and we became verloben, that is betrothed. I told my friends I was going to be married to him, and he said he was going to be married to me, and gave me a ring. The time was fixed for the wedding, which was to be in September. In July, after we were betrothed, we became for the first time intimately connected. About a fortnight before the day fixed for the wedding he persuaded me to go to London. We went to Bishopsgate street. Close by there was a church. About ten weeks after we arrived there there was a ceremony gone through in the house. A man came in whom Blecher said was a minister. He was dressed in a black gown. He read something oat of a book and joined our bands, Blecbe^