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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 2812, 1915.

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ILFORD'S "DUNMOW FLITCH"

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Three married couples, had the temerity to appear before a jury of six spinsters and aix bachelors ab Ilford on May 21st, and declare that they were perfectly happy-al- though they had not

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[ a year and a day. rolled for at least | for a hall site of bacon, a prize which titers the name of the Dunmow Flitch, has been the reward for conjugal perfection Dunmow for a a longer period than ean with curtainty be reckoned. It is ten years since Ilford decided that the custom was too good. to remain the "mongpoly of Dunmow, and the mock trial to which applicants 'for the Bitch have to submis has now become the, principal feature of the Ilford Whis Monday Este.

The competitors this year wein :

Mr. Thomas Edward Groves, Labour MP., for Stratford, and Mrs. Groves

- Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Katley, of Sianley, Kent, and

Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Heaaman, of Alfred. street, Manchester.

The jury decided that the flitch should go to Mr. and Mrs. Groves, and that the other applicants should share between them a second ditch, which was exhibited with the chief prize upon the judge's boneka-fina The proceedings were invested with rather more than the usual pop of court of law, even if its dignity was a trille lacking. Miss Maggie Buckley and 3ins Ellio Potter, attired in caps and gowns of crimson, acted & juniors to the Rev. Herbert Dunnico, Labour MP: fur Consett, and Mr. C. E. Grigsby. the traditional

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garb of the barrister were counsel lively for the claimants and the lith

But the ponderous wit of the scarlet-robed Mr. Justice Peter Stewart was occasionally interrupted by atentorian appeals for allence from an usher who wore s motar-board and employed a billiard-cue to empliasise his demands.

WHO PROPOSED }

Mr. and Mrs. Henaan were the first to enter the "dock." and the husband, a school- roaster, informed Mr. Duanico that he was 60 years old and had been married for two years and two tnontlis. He said he met his wife as a nursing home, and although he was “a bit sporty she would not accept his advances until he said he was a hopeless invalid. Then she said, “However good landlady might be, you would never be able to get done for you what a wife would do." (Laugh- ter.) The result was they were married, and he had never regretted it.

Cross-examined: Before he was married ho used to lose money at solo whist and keep his friends pocket money. Since his mar riage he had saved more money than during the previous twenty years, e

A MODERN RECHÁBITE,

Mr. Ketley, a nurseryman, said he had. been married thirty-six years. The only club ho belonged to was the Independent Or der of flechabites.

Air Grigsby: Do you remember the verse in Jeremiah relating to the Recha- bites: You shall drink no wine, sow no sced, build no houses, plant no vineyards, and in all your days ye shall dwell in tents 7" You don't drink wine,

but as a seed 1-Yes. nurseryman You BOW

live in a tent --No. So practically you ate a Rechabito in name

I don't admit it...

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This claimant produced testimonials from probation officer, & a police pedsioner, and retired warrant officer of the artillery.

Mr. Grigsby: You have been married thirty-six years without a quarrel 7-Yes.

Well, it's very stupid of both'

of you. Laughter.)

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and Mrs. Groves entered the "dock # Mr. Grigsby objected that this was a conspiracy on the part of Mr. Dunnico and the member for Stratford to give the Labour party a cachet of respectability it would not otherwise posics, but the objection was over-ruled.

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r. Groves said he was 35 years old and Fel was married in 1013.

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Cross-examining, Mr. Grigsby, put in a newspaper interview in which Mr. Groves said: As a boy & real David Copper-S Gell. Then I searched until I found the perfect Agnes, and then I married her.”

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Mr. Groves replied that he did not make this Wed statement literally. Further questioned, he

said he never had trouble with his wife over all-night sittings at the House of Commons; he could telephone from the Commons to

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In their concluding: asserted that the serious, purpose underly ing all the humour of the trial" was to deraonstrate that the basis of national well- being was the purity and truth of family life and the art though all the world tie. The Rev. H. Dannico said that knew that Ilford has produced Thompson the newspaper never emphasised the fact that Ilfordd also contained thousands of mothers who had never bowed the knee to the Heal of immorality.

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Before the Bitch was delivered the winners had to kneel upon what are reputai to be e original stonca used for this purpose at Dunmow for centuries, and to assent to the ancient declaration that since the parish. clerk asid Amen they had not wished themselges unmarried again..

It was announced that Mr. Groves would present the flitch to thị West Ham Hospital tor Old-Age Pensioners

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