THREE "WIVES."

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 138, 14 June 1938, Page 5

THREE "WIVES."

CHARGE OF BIGAMY. VOUNG MAN BEFORE COURT. ; LONDON, May 27. , When an unemployed motor driver i was charged at Brighton with bigamously , marrying a London artist's model, it was stated that a second bigamy charge was outstanding against him. Erie Reynolds, aged 26, of Amherst Road, Hackney, was charged with bigamously marrying Lilian Marjorie Harris on January 29, 1937. It was alleged that six weeks after the ceremony at Brighton register office he deserted her. He was remanded in custody. -Mr. H. Rogers, prosecuting, said: "There is another outstanding charge of bigamy which will have to° be preferred against him, and that might mean his re-arrest if he were released. The gravity of the nature "of these charges := considerable." ° -Mr. Rogers said that the legal wife told the police that she iv.ould be present 'in court, but 6he had not attended.

Miss Harris, who gave her address as • Campbell Buildings, Westminster Bridge Road, Lambeth, said she was now unemployed. She had known' Reynolds for about four or five months before she went through a form of marriage witbi him. He had not supported her° or her chikl at any time sin"7he left ier, j