BIGAMY CHARGE.

Auckland Star, Issue 265, 8 November 1929, Page 12

BIGAMY CHARGE.

AGENT SENT FOR TRIAL.

EVIDENCE FROM ENGLAND,

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday.

Maurice William Baker, aged 32, an advertising agent, was to-day committed to the Supreme Court for trial on a charge of bigamy. It was alleged that on January 8, 1927, at Wellington, being married,, he went through a form of marriage with Nancy Patricia Holmes. Detective-Sergeant Young said that in a statement accused said he had married Letty Gwendoline McWilliams in England on August 19, 1924. He and his wife had stayed at a hotel for a week when, as the result of something he had heard concerning his wife, he left her. He had never heard from her since a fortnight .after the marriage.

Witness also produced a statement made by Letty Gwendoline Baker to the Surrey police. She said that her husband had left her shortly after the marriage and was subsequently co-respon-dent in a divorce action. In 1927 she had gone to India to work. When she returned to England, in 1929, she went to see accused's mother and found out his address. She had then written to the police in Christchurch. Nancy Patricia Baker said that in January, 1927, at the Registrar's office, Wellington, she went through a form of marriage with accused. She had not known that he was previously married •until after he was arrested. There were two children.