STRANGE BIGAMY CASE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11999, 23 June 1902, Page 6

STRANGE BIGAMY CASE.

ALLEGED TRICKING OF A WOMAN Some extraordinary development* »; Wednesday last during tile heiiTrf* case at Darlinghurst (New South Wale * axons, in which Mary Ann Heine pl eade guilty to a charge of bigamy with ft * William Smith, on March 5, 1900 \ ff 8 " band being then alive. The Crown P S * cutor only pressed for a nominal punUW as he understood that the woman w». '■ sinned against than sinnintr a ,,H f ? ore ready been five weeks in Son A "'" went into the witness-box, and'ta^T d she married Heine when she wm Ift hat age, and had 10 children by him'"!, 01 separated from Heine a long time a supported her children by .teaching - ' *"* and singing and by dress-malan- % *' C to the office of Smith, or Smvth ,K We lease of a farm. The first'' h e " " l he he told her he was a widower, and w o u,d t to get married again. The next fe£ Jr * met he asked her tc marry him. £?? weeks afterwards she was in his nffi e Slx he asked her to call back and have 1 tl/ 2? him in his office, and she agreed % V th £16 out of the bank, and returned V persuaded her to drink half a glass of J * and said he would drink the other half 'v""' he did not, throwing his portion on the fiW He again asked her to marry him, whem. she explained the circumstances about He!,"'" and said she had not heard from him ? ' about 10 years He said thatTs & t been away from her husband for seven v. she could easily get married again w explained that he would go to "fi ■• Bull's," and ask him about ii ° He w,»f * " and locked her in the office. ft 1 ' began to feel the effects of the win! t*, had no strength in her knees. Sinvtk turned, and said that the lawyer said it, I*'1*' all right. Hethenputhe/Jria they were driven to a place in Pitt*|rS where they were married. After the i riage he said he had no money, and *h» , him £1. This he changed in an hotel ,S gave her a shilling and put her into a tram At various times she gave him sums amnl ing to £15 He aLrwards^T Z place with his lour children, and while V was in gaol for a yea. she supported the children. She had an interest in some pro! perty in Coogee, valued at £11,000 and K asked her to make this over to him ' Wh he came out of gaol he told her he wa« IT*married to her. His Honor said that from her account accused appeared to have he»» tricked by Smyth, or Smith. She had brought a serious charge against him, and no doubt he was liable to be prosecuted for marrying her, knowing she had a husband alive His Honor had known something > about Smyth which enabled him to j u d Pe He thought he could rely upon the Woman's account that she was tricked into a muriate by a person who had designs upon her nrn perty. Perhaps she was drugged, so Ito deprive her of her reasoning powers, for she certainly did a most foolish thing if in her senses. She would be imprisoned till th« rising of the Court. Smyth, or Smith, was immediately arrested and charged with marrying Mrs. Heine knowing her husband to be alive. He was brought before tho Water Police Court, and was remanded '