"Trouble ' With Marriages
(Rec. 10 SYDNEY, August 2. A Judge told a 62-year-old Adelaide war veteran who married four women, two of them bigamously: “You certainly like trouble.”
Charles Hubart Roseveai pleaded guilty in the Quarter Sessions on Thursday to having bigamously married Thelma Cecilia Johnston, also known as Bothomley, at Darlinghurst, Sydney, on April 29, 1944.
Detective D. K. Evenden said that if Rosevear had not come from Adelaide to Sydney to confess, his bigamy would probably not have been known. Rosevear was first married in England in June, 1919, while serving with the Australian Infantry Force. He brought his wife to New South Wales, but left her nine years later. Nineteen days after his bigamous marriage in 1944, his legal wife died, but Rosevear was not aware of this at the time.
Rosevear’s other marriages were: in 1944 to a woman in Sydney. As the first Mrs Rosevear was dead by this time the. marriage was legal. In 1956 to a widow in Adelaide. This was a bigamous marriage; but Rosevear now wanted to go back to Adelaide and marry the widow legally (his second 1944 marriage has now been annulled). Judge Prior released Rosevear on a £lOO good behaviour bond.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28346, 3 August 1957, Page 13
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