MUCH-MARRIED WOMAN

Grey River Argus, 26 September 1941, Page 7

MUCH-MARRIED WOMAN

Double Bigamy Case TWO MEN ALSO CHARGED. p.A. AUCKLAND, Sept. 25. An extraordinary story of a young woman’s adventures in marriage was unfolded in the Police Court to-day, when Dorothy Muriel Christensen, aged 27 years, pleaded guilty to two charges of bigamy. She was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Two men with whom the prisonei admitted having gone through a form of marriage, were each also charged with committing bigamy. One pleaded not guilty and he was committed for trial. The other man, to whom the woman was legally married only on Monday last, is not to go for trial. The Magistrate, Mr Hunt, dismissing the charge against him. The female accused was charged under the name of Christensen, which was her name when the ■ offences were committed. She was charged that, having married Raymond Oliver Christensen, at Auckland in August, 1935, she went through a form of marriage with Thomas Hynes at Thames, in October of IJ3o, thereby committing bigamy: and, further, that, on February 24, 1939, at Auckland, she went through a form of marriage with Herbert Thomas Hill, thereby committing bigamy. „ Herbert Thomas Hill, aged -8 years, was not asked to plead, and the charge against him was dismissed. Hynes, aged 32, pleaded not guilty. He reserved his defence and was committed for trial.'