RAPID MARRIAGE.
TWO IN SEVEN DAYS. A young immigrant woman, pleaded guilty in the Police Court to bigamy, when it was shown from a statement made to Detective O'Brien that she had married twice within seven days of her arrival in the Dominion. She met a steward coming out from Home on the Otarama and plighted her troth to marry him as soon as he got his discharge after arrival in Wellington. The day after her arrival, however, «he accepted a quick proposal, and married the son of the family she went to stay with. The husband went away the next day to his farm, and as he did not instantly return the new wife got alarmed.
Then she met the steward—ran into him in the street. She told her tale and got married again, under the name of her recent husband, as Lillian Camish Clark. -With her was charged with bigamy William Frederick Saunders. on the ground that he knew at the time he married this girl that she was already married. The pair were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 48, 26 February 1923, Page 7
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183RAPID MARRIAGE. Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 48, 26 February 1923, Page 7
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