BIGAMY CHARGE.
'CAUGHT ON REBOUND' SAID HE WAS KIDNAPPED. BIG-GAME HUNTER'S PLEA. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON", May 1. Charged with bigamy ill New York. Captain Charles Drummond Woodyatt. British big-game hunter, said that the girl he married "caught him on the rebound." He had quarrelled with his third wife in December, 1930, at Greenwich, and they parted.
The girl, said Captain Woodyatt, kid-j napped him on Christmas Day and shut hint up in her apartment for 12 days, then accused hint of having ruined her reputation and forced him to go to the marriage bureau after he had been drinking heavily. Woodyatt pleaded not guilty. "My nerves were shattered," he said, "and 1 was so ill I did not know what I was doing." He claimed that he was a classmate at Sandhurst of King George V. He also described himself as an actor, author and air ace. Woodyatt man-ied Lorna Cubitt. of Norfolk, England, in 1922, and had been married twice since. He insisted that his last "wife" inarmed him under coercion. "She kidnapped me, took me to her apartment. There she kept me 12 days, then forced ine to go with her to the City Hall Marriage License Bureau on January 7."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 126, 29 May 1937, Page 11
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