YOUNG MAN COMMITS BIGAMY
MARRIED TWICE IN THREE MONTHS. (Uf TEI/EGBATH — PHESS ASSOCIATION.) PALMERSTON NORTH, This Day. In the Police Court this morning \ Charles Harvey, a young man, pleaded ! guilty to a charge of bigamy and was | committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. The case presented rather .unusual features. According to the cvi* dence accused married on 27th December last a young woman namdd Riley at New Plymouth. Next thing Harvey, turned up at Frankton an<! eloped with the daughter of a resideni and brought her to l'almerston. The father followed them up and found them here. The girl is still in her teens. A certain amount of pressure was brought to bear on accused and he went to tho Registrar's Office with the girl and went through the form of marriage. Rumours I got about, and when accused was intevro- j fated he made a clean brrasfc of it, j 'lie girl in evidence said she was seven- i teen, but the age on the marriage certificate is shown as sixteen.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 57, 8 March 1913, Page 6
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