FALSE STATEMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 101, 25 October 1940, Page 5

FALSE STATEMENT

MARRIED MAN'S OFFENCE

(By Telegraph—'Press Association.) AUCKLAND, October. 24. A charge, of making a false statement under the Act was preferred against Dick Llewellyn Claridge, aged. 36, when he/appeared 'in the Magistrate's Court. Terence Sharkey,. clerk employed in the office of the Registrar of Marriages, Auckland, gave evidence that on May 15 the accused filled in an application i'or a marriage licence in which he described himself', as , a bachelor. Witness told, the accused to. return the next day for the licence, but the next morning he was instructed not to' issue the licence. The accused did not return .to the office. A detective read a statement by the accused, in which he said he had married iri Christchurch seven years ago, but this wife had divorced him and had married again. He himself married again in Christchurch in August last year. He left his second wife, about nine months ago, but he.knew she.was not dead, as had she died his mother in Christchurch would have notified him. The statement in the application that he had made in Auckland that he was a bachelor was not correct. After he had made the application he had realised this was wrong and had told the Registrar to cancel the application. The accused, who pleaded guilty, was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, bail being allowed. ]