SAILOR BIGAMIST

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 29, 28 October 1932, Page 11

SAILOR BIGAMIST

- His Wife Marries Again FORMER NAVAL RATING By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Oct. 27. During the hearing of a charge of bigamy against Henry Oliver Nelson in the Police Court to-day it was revealed that his wife, who w r as in England, had also committed bigamy. Nelson was charged with going through a form of marriage with a woman in Auckland in 1925, when his wife, whom he married in 1917, in Plymouth, England, was still alive. Accused was formerly a leading stoker in the sloop Laburnum. Royal Margaret McCallum, aged 31, said in evidence that she intended to re-marry Nelson when he got a divorce. He had always treated her and their child well. The police produced a statement by accused that in 1924 he had received a letter from his mother in England telling him he was a free man. He had made no further inquiries then, but he had ascertained since that his wife had married again in 1929. She had said in a statement that she was happy and never wanted to see him again. Accused was committed for sen* fence, bail being allowed.