Unwed Wife Takes Action Against Chinese A fashionably dressed Chinese girl who was married only four days ago appeared in the First Special District Court yesterday to witness a hearing in which her husband was questioned by the judge in regard to a charge of "double marriage" made by a} woman who claimed to have been married to the man last year. The! Accused husband was released on bail at the request of the police, who wanted the accusing woman to produce more evidence.
The chief character in the case is the 24-year old manager of a motor car repair shop in Weihaiwei Road named Hsu Kai-ming. He was said io have lived with the accusing woman for many months during which, however, they often quarrelled. Recently the woman found out that he had fallen in love with another girl, Miss Chao Ching-mei, whom he married in a wedding cere-many held in a restaurant in Hankow Road.
Shortly before midnight on Wednesday, the woman went to the Taku Road residence of the newly married couple and,. after ascertaining that her "husband" was with another woman she ran to the Chengtu Road PolicesStation and told the officers there that her "husband" was having illegal relations with another girl The police went to the new residence and arrested the newly married couple. The arrested man told the police, however, that the accusing woman had never been married to him. In court the accusing woman could not produce a wedding certificate, while the newly married couple showed their document,
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