BIGAMY CHARGE
A WOMAN AT CHRISTCHURCH
(By Telegraph—Preps Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day,
Mary Amelia Reynolds, a domestic, aged 42, pleaded not guilty tq a charge of bigamy this morning and was committed to the Supreme Court for trial, Evidence was given by William Reynolds, labourer, of Blenheim, that he married the accused at Blenheim in 1913. Two years later she left him and went to Wellington. He did not think his wife could read or write when she married him. Police evidence was given that in a statement the accused said that for a fortnight before her second marriage she had been drinking for three days, Richard Edward Roe, stevedore, Lyttellon, said he married the accused in 1924, She said she was a widpw. Five years after the marriage she said: '-I may as well tell you that my first husband is still alive." She finally left him in 1933, Bail of £500 was allowed,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 129, 2 June 1936, Page 4
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