CHARGE OF BIGAMY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVI, Issue 14427, 18 July 1907, Page 9

CHARGE OF BIGAMY.

I * “ I [Peii Pbess Association.j NAPIER, July 17. Arthur Graham Owen was oommitteA ■ for trial on - a charge of making a false declaration, to the Registrar of Marriages at Christchurch. The prosecution stated that the accused had declared himself to be a bachelor and had gone through the ceremony _of marriage with Ruth Muter, he having previously gone through the same ceremony with a woman named Minnie Schmitt at Adelaide.. According to a statement made by accused, the Adelaide marriage was not legal, because he had a wife living in England than.