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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9073, 18 November 1909, Page 5

At the Richmond (Vic.) Court, Olive Lester Cooper, aged 17 years, was charged on the information of Walter John Leishman with haying committed bigamy. Albert Christopher Cooper, a young man, said accused was his wife. He married her on August 20, at a matrimonial agency. He could not think of the clergyman' 6 name. A Mrs Coleman and his wife's mother were present as witnesses. At the time he married accused she was about to become a

mother, and he believed the informant (Leishman) was the father of the child. He was awfully fond other, and married her to save her from the disgrace. They lived together for some weeks. One day she went out to get some groceries, and did not return. She came back a week afterwards crying, and told him she could not get away from Leishman, with whom she had gone through the form of marriage, because Leishman had threatened to shoot her. Walter John Leishman, jam-maker, deposed that accused went through the form of marriage with him at the Rev. Mr Hosking's, Fitzroy, on October 16. He had never threatened to shoot her, nor did he know that she was married. She was trying to father the child on to him, and it was in consequence of that he went through the form of marriage. Accused was committed for trial.