Bigamist Takes Widow's Life Savings
[Special to “Northern Advocate ”] WELLINGTON, This Day.
“Did he succeed in obtaining from you the whole of your life’s savings?” was a. question put to a woman witness, a widow, when William George Alexander Phillips, aged 63, a carpenter. was charged with bigamy. “Yes, he did,” replied the witness. It was alleged that, having been married in the; registrar’s office in Wanganui in 1925, he went through a form of marriage at the registrar’s office in Wellington in 1928. In addition, he was charged with obtaining, on various dates, £430 in money from the woman by the false pretence that he was single and would marry her. After evidence had been heard, accused pleaded guilty to both charges, and was committed to the Supreme Court .’for sentence.
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Northern Advocate, 23 March 1939, Page 4
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