CHARGES OF BIGAMY

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 August 1920, Page 8

CHARGES OF BIGAMY

MAX AND WOMAN AT COURT. (Per Press Association. i WELLINGTON, August 12. A young man named Sydney Svw nson appeared at the Magistrate's Court yesterday with a young woman named Myrtle Put id, on a charge 01 committing bka.ny at Dunedin cn May 13th. Both were represented by Mr. J. S. Hanna, and pleaded not guilty. The male accuse t was on a hospital shin, it was stated, and a girl whom he had nut in England was coming out to marry him. When he arrived in New Zealand he met the female accused, but told Inr he was bringing out a girl from Home. Later his fiancee arrived, and he was married at St. Peter’s Church in Wellington in March. Shordy. afterwards lie again met the Dmaie accused, and was married to her m'May 13'h. 1920 at Dunedin. The magistrate (Mr. W *G. Riddell, S.M.) commuted the a< cused to the Supreme Court for sentence. Bail was fixed at £l5O, and cue surety- fer a like amount for the male accused, and bail for the female accused was fixed at £53 and one surety for £SO.

•which have made no reserves for this conlingency, will be very heavily h it. TOD SLOAN’S SPEED. .A FLYER. The famous jockey Tod Sloan has married Miss Betty Maloney at Los Angeles, California. Mrs Sloan is even smaller than her diminutive husband, reaching only to his shoulder. Tod Sloan, ■ interviewed after the “wedding, said: “I have always believed in speed. I met my wife on June 14th, one day after my arrival at Los Angeles, and now we are married in ten days.”

THE AUSTRALIAN STEEPLES MELBOURNE, August 15.—The Australian Steenles resulted as follows: Kinlark (Boyd); Doiranv C r y~ ey) 2nd; Rosyth (Butler') 3rd. _ E'ght started. Kinlark and Doiran iv.ely led to the last round, a”d when passing the stand the order was Doiran; Rosyth, Gobram and Kinlark. At. the next jump Alfous came to grief, and Mountain God had previously fallen. Kinlark ran into second place along the railway, and joined .Doiran-after the last fence, was negotiated. An exciting finish was witnesses. Kinlark winning by half a length. Jim o 7 54.

SHORT . SHRIFT FOR PACIFIST. • Whoever ordered the shooting of the pacifist German ex-naval officer, Captain Hans Paasche, meant that no mistake should be made, for an expedition of two officers and 60 men were sent to kill a solitary- individual who had only two or three servants on his estate. The captain had been bathing, and, attacked while still clad in his bathing costume, he was shot dead in cold blood, the official report of the affair saying that he was suspected of communist agitation. The Reichswehr Regiment IV, has issued a statement that the action was taken by order of • the Government.

The soldiers declare that one of their officers gave orders that 'Paasche was to be shot. His relatives and neighbours are con vinced that the search was simply an excuse. His life had several times been threatened, and it seems that his pacifism was not so much the cause of the attack as the influence he had obtained over the local population. .