BIGAMY ADMITTED
NINE YEARS’ OLD OFFENCE. Dominion Special Service. Auckland, August 2. A plea of guilty to a charge of bigamy ami one of making a false statement was entered in the Supreme Court by Ernest Heap, aged 48. lie was remajided until Monday tor sentence. Ihe evidence given in the Magistrate’s Court was that Heap went through a form of marriage in May, 1919, at Whhkatane, there being three children of. the. union-. A certificate of prisoner’s marriage to Amy Ogden at Lancaster, England, in 190-1, was produced. In a statement to the police Heap said that after living in England for some time he left Jus wife and child and eaine to New Zealand. His wife followed m 1910, but disliked the country and returned to England in 1913 without his knowedge. Since then he, had heard nothing from her. ;• _
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 260, 3 August 1928, Page 6
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