BIGAMY ALLEGED

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 119, 15 November 1929, Page 6

BIGAMY ALLEGED

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) f:. AUCKLAND, 14th November. Charges of committing bigamy and iof making a false declaration were denied by Charles Mozart Spinley, aged 45, in the Magistrate's Court to-day. It was alleged that the accused went through a form of marriage with Annie' Mary Whelan' at Hamilton);in 1925 ■when he was already married to Lena Norman Foote. " .;. Lena Norman Spinley said-she waa married to the accused at Matahurn, near Ohinewai, in 1911. They did not get on well together and separated in 1920. Accused paid maintenance to : her for a time, but this ceased about a year later. Accused visited her and" asktjd her to return to him, but she refused.'

Pc-teetive.-O'Sullivan said that the accused denied stating he was a bachelor when he was married tho second time. '.'• : . '."':■'"

Annie Mary Whelan said that nineteen mouths after her marriage to the accused they went to visit his brother in the country; and whilo there his sister-in-law taxed him with being married'to another woman. Witness advertised for the first wife; they met and compared their marriage certificates, and witness then left the accused.

The accused waa committed to the Supreme Court for trial. Prior to the hearing of the evidence Spinley was convicted and discharged on three charges of obtaining; 'sums totalling £19 10s by means of false pretences. It was stated by the police that he was already serving -a term of imprisonment.