CHARGE OF BIGAMY
Woman to Stand Trial
By Telegraph—Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, June 2. Mary Amelia Reynolds, domestic, aged i". pleaded not guilty to a charge of bigaiuv in the Magistrate’s Court to day. Him was committed fur trial. Evidence was given by William Reynolds, labourer, of Blenheim, that lie married the accused at Blenheim in 1913. Two years later she left him aud went to Wellington. He did uot think that his wife could read or write when she married him. Police evidence was given that in a ■diiteuieut the accused said that tor a fortnight before her second ma-rriago dm had been drinking for three daysRichard Edward Roe, stevedore, ol Lyttelton, said that lie married the ; eeused in 1924. She said that, she Was ■i widow. Five years -after their marriage she said: “I. may as well tell you hat my first husband is still alive.’ She linally left him in 1933. Bail of £5OO was allowed
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 144, 3 June 1936, Page 11
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