CHARGE OF BIGAMY
■•/'CAPTAIN” ROBERTSON COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. Sydney, December 24. Robert Robertson, w’ho achieved notoriety by jumping from a fourth-floor window of the Aero Club in Sydney, has been committed for trial on a charge of bigamy. Bail was allowed. One woman gave evidence that she married Robertson in 1919. Another married him in October, 1925. In each case the witness said she was aged 17 at the time of the marriage.—Sydnev ’"Sun” Cable.
[Robertson, while in Auckland, disclosed a plan for a flight from Sydney to Auckland, but his bona fides were questioned by the Aero Club authorities in Sydney, and when a threat was made to call the police Robertson leap-' ed through the window.]
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 78, 27 December 1926, Page 9
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