A ROMANTIC MARRIAGE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2352, 6 August 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

A ROMANTIC MARRIAGE.

Ix the Court of Session, Edinburgh, recently, Lord McLaren beard evidence in an action of divorce which brought out details of a romantic nature. The action was by Isabella Sanderson, 6, Eorrestroad, Edinburgh, against Charles Underwood, surgeon, of Edinburgh, now in Bombay. The pursuer said she was 20 years of age, and was. married to the defendant, a half-caste, in July, ISB2, when she was 16, before a registrar. She was a pupil teacher, and got married during the school lunch hour, being driven back to school by her husband in time for afternoon lessons. She next saw him on the following morning for a few minutes in the street, and she gave him the marriage certificate at ids request. She told her father of the marriage two days afterwards, but she did net see her husband again till the following September, when he called at her father’s house. Her father refused to allow her to live with her husband until he could provide a home. Underwood then left the house, and she had not seen him since. lie returned to her, through a friend, a lock of hair which she had (riven him (laughter), and she believed ho had gone home to Bombay. Lord M’Laren granted a decree of divorce on the ground of desertion.