CHARGE OF BIGAMY
ACCUSED COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE. By Telegraph —Press Association. Auckland, Oct. 27. During the hearing of a charge of bigamy brought against Henry Oliver Nelson in the Police Court to-day, it was revealed that his wife, who is in England, had also committed bigamy. Nelson was charged with going through the form of marriage with a woman in Auckland in 1925 when his wife, whom he married in 1917 in Plymouth, England, was still alive. The accused was formerly leading stoker in the sloop Laburnum. Margaret McCallum, aged 31, said in evidence that she intended to re-marry Nelson when he got his divorce. He had always treated her and their child well. The police produced a statement by the accused saying that in .1924 he received a letter from his mother in England telling him that he was a free man. He made no further enquiries then, but since had ascertained that his wife had married again in 1929. She said in the statement that she was happy and never wanted to see him again. The accused was committed for sentence and allowed bail.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 268, 27 October 1932, Page 7
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