BIGAMIST BEFORE COURT
PLEADS GUILTY Dominion Special Service. Christchurch, November 18. Maurice William Baker, an advertising agent, pleaded guilty when his case was called in the Supreme Court to-day to a charge of bigamy. In August, 1924, he married Letty Gwendoline McWilliams at the Registrar’s office at Kingston, Surrey, England, and on January 8, 1927, in the Registrar's office at Wellington, he went through the form of marriage with Nancy Patricia Holmes. He was remanded for sentence till Wednesday. The evidence given against Baker in the Magistrate’s Court was that he deserted his wife in England about a week after the wedding, and came to New Zealand, where he married again, his second wife not knowing that he had been married before until after his arrest.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 47, 19 November 1929, Page 12
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