WOMAN BIGAMIST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 189, 12 August 1933, Page 4 (Supplement)

WOMAN BIGAMIST.

"JEKYLL AND HYDE."

MARRIED A POLICEMAN. A woman bigamist's "Jekyll and Hyde" life was described at the Old Bailey, London, when Lottie Agnes Elizabeth Graves (30), pleaded guilty to bigamously marrying Ecnnesen Smith, a city constable. Mr. A. Jessel (prosecuting) said that Mrs. Graves was married in March. 1923, to a railway guard and lived at Sclgrave Road, Hammersmith. She met P.C. Smith in 1931, and told him that she was single and that her name was Ena Lewis. Smith asked why she was wearing a wedding ring and' 6be then said that her husband had been killed in a railway accident. After a year's courtship, during which P.C. Smith visited the house at Hammersmith, but never met the real husband, lie married Graves, believing she was a widow. The honeymoon was spent at Folkestone, and Mrs. Graves explained her visit there by telling her husband that she was nursing a friend. "Box and Cox." Tho couple came back to London and went to live at Highbury. Mrs. Graves told her husband she had to nurse the friend at night. In that way she was able to be Mrs. Smith at night, and in the daytime she returned to her husband as Airs. Graves. The Recorder (Sir Ernest Wild, K.C.): This is "Box and Cox"" with a vengeanee. Mr. Jessel: Almost Jekyll and Hyde. Mr. Jessel said that the deception went on until February of this year, when Mrs. Graves told P.C. Smith that for six or seven weeks 6he would have to go to a hospital every night. She then returned to her husband at night and became "Mrs. Smith" in the daytime. Detective-Inspector Crccr, of the City police, said that both men thought the world of Airs. Graves. P.C. Smith was entirely deceived by her." Mr. Graves said his wife had been a good wife and he was taking her back. P.C. Smith said that the only thing to do now was to cut All's. Graves out of his life. "I want you to be lenient with her and give her another chance," he added. Sentencing Mrs. Graves to six months imprisonment in the second division, the Recorder said: "You are a thoroughly bad woman. You have played havoc with this policeman's heart and you might have jeopardised his position. He is entirely blameless."