CHARGE OF BIGAMY
LEFT HIS WIFE IN ENGLAND MARRIED A GISBORNE WOMAN. # (Per Press Association). Gisborne, Sept. 29. Roland Henry Whippey, who left his wife in England and went through a form oi marriage with a young woman of Gisborne early this year, was brought before the court on charges of bigamy and making a false declaration to the Registrar of Marriages. He pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence. Whippey is at present serving a sentence for false pretences and theft.
When married in 1918 the prisoner was a lieutenant in the Royal Indian Marines and tour years later went on a survey of the west coast of Afriba. Subsequently he visited Mesopotamia. Persia and Singapore, hi 5 wife being maintained by her parents and her husband’s parents. The accused, in a statement admitting his guilt, said he was under the belief that his wife had divorced him. The young Gisborne woman concerned stated the accused had represented himself as a bachelor, never indicating that he had been married.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 29 September 1927, Page 5
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