BIGAMY CHARGE.
ACCUSED COMMITTED FOE SEN-
TENCE,
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) * , GISBORNE, This Day. Rolanii Henry Whippey, who left his wife in England and went through a form of marriage with a young woman at Gisborne early this year, was before the Court charged with bigamy and making a false return to the registrar of marriages. Accused pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence. Whippey at present is serving a sentence for false pretences and theft. When married in 19l'8 prisoner was a lieutenant in the Royal Indian Marines, and four years later went on survey to the west coast of Africa and subsequently to Mesopotamia,, Persia and Singapore, his wife being maintained by her parents and her husband’s parents. Accused in a statement admitting his guilt, said he was under tlie belief that his wife had divorced him. The young Gisborne woman concerned stated accused had represented himself as a bachelor, never indicating that he had been married.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 September 1927, Page 5
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158BIGAMY CHARGE. Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 September 1927, Page 5
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