RELUCTANT BIGAMIST

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29760, 1 March 1962, Page 13

RELUCTANT BIGAMIST

Man Bound Over (N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) SWINDON (England), February 28. A nine-stone man complained in Court today that a woman he met as a penfriend “dragged” him to the Registry Office to get married and then locked him in her house so that he could not “take off.” Mr Edward Hobbs, aged 41, a hospital porter, was bound over for a year after pleading guilty to bigamously marrying the woman, Mrs Margaret Bond. The Judge told the reluctant bridegroom: “I am satisfied that you committed this offence when your will was overborne by the woman in question.” The prosecutor, describing ft as a “somewhat astonishing story,” said Hobbs had met Mrs Bond on several occasions but had failed to tell her he was already married.

Hobbs said afterwards: “I am going to take a two-week holiday to recover from the ordeal.”

Welenskv On Wav To U.K.

(N.Z.P .A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON. Feb. 28.

The Federal Rhodesian Prime Minister (Sir Roy Welensky) left by air for London this morning for a last-minute attempt to rally opposition against the British Government's constitutional proposals for Northern Rhodesia. The proposals are believed to provide for an African majority in its Government.

Sir Roy Welensky said before leaving Salisbury last night that they were “not good enough.”