BIGAMOUS MARRIAGE ALLEGED

Evening Star, Issue 21622, 18 January 1934, Page 11

BIGAMOUS MARRIAGE ALLEGED

WITH FORMER WELLINGTON OIM. A MUSICIAN CHARGED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, LONDON, January 17. (Received January 18, at 11.15 a.m.) The story of a bigamous marriage in Adelaide was told in the LeedsTohce Court when Edward Wam (Jo), a musician, Vas charged with bigamy and arrears of his wife’s maintenance. The prosecution requested suppression of the name of the girl involved in the bigamous marriage. She was a single woman of 24 belonging to a highly respected Wellington (New Zealand) family and known in London social The magistrate said he did not think the girl deserved to have her name suppressed. . ‘ XT The prosecution said she was Nancy Russell Vautier, formerly of Wellington, and now of Twickenham Park. It was alleged that Ward, after deserting his wife, went to, ■ Australia, where he met Miss Vautier on a liner from Sydney going to Colombo, where she was to be married. Ward induced her to marry him at Adelaide. The police arrested Ward yesterday for failing to pay £9B arrears of maintenance to the wife he married at Leeds in 1926, who in October, 1932, was granted £3 weekly on the grounds r of desertion. Miss Vautier, in her evidence, said that when Ward proposed she thought he was joking, and lent him £3O at Melbourne. He again proposed after leaving Melbourne. She lent him £2O to buy clothes. ... Ward was committed for trial oh the bigamy charge. and was. sentenced to three months’ imprisonment in,connection with the maintenance.