FALSE STATEMENT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 25 October 1940, Page 2

FALSE STATEMENT

APPLICATION FOR MARRIAGE LICENSE [United Press Association) AUCKLAND, 24th October. A charge of making a false statement under the Marriage Act was preferred against Dick Llewellyn Claridge, aged 36, when he appeared in the Magistrates Court. Terence Sharkey, clerk employed in the office of the registrar of marriages, Auckland, gave evidence that an 15th May accused filled in an application for a marriage license, in which he described himself as a bachelor. Witness told accused to return the next day for J the license, but the next morning he was instructed not to issue the license. ■ Accused did not return to the office, j A detective read a statement by acI cused, in which he said he had married in Christchurch seven years ago, but this wife had divorced him and married again. He himself married again in Christchurch in August last year. He left his second wife about nine months ago, but he knew she was not dead, as had she died his mother in Christchurch would have notified him. The statement in the application that he had made in Auckland that he was a bachelor was not correct. After he had made the application he had realised this was wrong and had told the registrar to cancel the application. Accused, who pleaded guilty, was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, bail being allowed.