SYMPATHY FOR BIGAMIST
In a charge of bigamy at the Old Bailev fainst a canteen attendant named Sylvia Watts, the Common Sergeant expressed sympathy with the woman, and bound her over, hoping that her future life would be more happy than her past. It was stated by counsel fox’ Watts that, in addition to the charge of bigamy against Watts, her husband was awaiting his trial at Sussex Assizes on a similar accusation. It was a sad case. The woman had been left by her husband, and she went through a form of marriage with an American sailor last December- The sailor had gone back to America, hut arrangements had bean made for the woman to join him there. Detective-sergeant Steele said that Watts married when she was only 19. She had a very unhappy life, her husband ill-treat-ing her and blackening her eyes. He left her and went to Folkstone and joined the army, making his allotment over to another woman.
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Evening Star, Issue 17033, 2 May 1919, Page 7
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162SYMPATHY FOR BIGAMIST Evening Star, Issue 17033, 2 May 1919, Page 7
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