CAPTAIN CRUTCHLEY'S DOUBLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2101, 22 September 1885, Page 2

CAPTAIN CRUTCHLEY'S DOUBLE.

The London correspondent of the Dunedin Evening Star writes Some sensation was caused in Anglo-colonial city circles the other morning by a rumor to the effect that Captain Crutchley, of theR.M.S.S, Kaikoura, had been arrested on a charge of bigamy. This pretty tale had hardly time to get about before some person, saner than his fellows, suddenly remembered that Captain Crutchley was on board his vessel half-way out . to New Zealand, and consequently could scarcely be in London undergoing a trial for bigamy. The story was then investi-. gated, and found to be as follows On Thursday last John Malcolm, a saleman's caßhier at the Central Meat Market, was charged on remand witli having married Emma Dash at Briglitou, his former wife ■ • being now alive. Miss Dash deposed to meeting the prisoner at Brighton, He said he was the captain of the Now Zealand liner Kaikoura, and as her friends found there was such a vessel, they /Jft believed him. After a five days' acquain- ' tance, Miss Dash and the gallant captain M were married at Brighton, and went to Chicheßter for a few days' honeymoon. The bridegroom then' rejoined his ship, which was on the point of sailing to New Zealand. One day at the beginning of the present month an intimate friend of Miss Dash, who had assisted at her wedding, went to an annual jtk known as the " Butcher's Garden Party." There, lo and behold! he spotted the recreant bridegroom, fondly supposed by his doting spouse to be speeding towards the Antipodes, The wretclnvas recognised, but protested there was some mistake, as he could prove he was selling frozen mutton at the Central Meat market at the very hour Miss D,, waß beingmarried at Brighton, Miss D., however, when confronted with Malcolm cried "Thou art the man," and swooned away. Subsequently Mes dames Malcolm one and two met in the corridor of the Court and indulged in a feminine fight—hair, peary powder, eyebrows, and fingernails, flying about in all directions. Malcolm will in all probability be committed for trial.