SEAMEN’S CRIMES.
COMMITTED FOR THEFT. CHARGE OF BIGAMY. ___ Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, March 27. John • Frederick Byrnand, aged 31, a seaman, was to-day committed for sentence on charges of breaking and entering the warehouse of the Woolston Tanneries, Ltd., and stealing goods valued at £7 and breaking and entering the premises of Petrol Supplies, Ltd., and stealing an alarm clock of the value of 10s. Finger prints on broken window glass were responsible for accused’s arrest in connection with the latter crime. Reginald Boyton, a seaman who married in January, to-day pleaded guilty to bigamy, Jiaving married Kathleen Schroeder at Greymouth in 1925, who tyo months after the marriage took maintenance and separation proceedings against him. He told his wife a week prior to his arrest that he had been previously married.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 101, 28 March 1929, Page 2
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132SEAMEN’S CRIMES. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 101, 28 March 1929, Page 2
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