BIGAMOUS MARRIAGE ADMITTED BY HALF-CASTE. MAORI
(P.A.)' AUCKLAND. This Day. Worried because she had committed bigamy, a half-caste Maori, Jean Mackie, ased 27, returned to New Zealand from the United States “to get it all straightened out.” She told this in the Police Court today when she was charged that having married Anthony Bennett at Otorohanga on September 19, 1938, she went through a form of marriage with George Tascal Montgomery at Auckland on April 24, 1946. The accused said she did not want to marry Bennett, but did so to please her father. The accused was committed to. the Supreme Court for sentence.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 November 1947, Page 7
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