Woman Admits Bigamy Charge
SENT TO SUPREME COURT FOR SENTENCE Per Press Association AUCKLAND, Last Night. Charges of committing bigamy- and securing money- by false pretences were admitted in tho Police Court by MayMatilda Low-den, aged 25. She was charged that, on October 13, 1931, being then already married, sho went through a form of marriage with Gilbert Samuel John Glass, thereby committing bigamy-. The second charge was with intent to defraud she secured £.1.3 from a company- by falsely representing that a piano was her personal property and unemeumbered.
The evidence showed that accused married a naval seaman .in 1929. Later he went to England, and accused n<,ot Glass about two days before marrying him. He is a naval petty- officer and left for England about four weeks after the marriage.
Accused was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence on. tho bigamy charge and was remanded for sentence on the second charge.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7268, 22 September 1933, Page 6
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