LIGHTNING BIGAMIST.
COURTED TWO WOMEN AT ONCE. Meeting one young woman in a cinema and another in a tramcar, Charles Edward Marshall, thirty-five, an engineer with a club foot, courted them at the same time, and—according to evidence at Tower Bridge Police Court— ried" them both within six months of one another. Meanwhile his legal wife, the widow <<f a soldier killed in the Mons retreat, was stated to be alive, Marshall having lived with her until her gratuity of £52 was exhausted. The first bigamous marriage, eaid the prosecution, occurred on January 11 of "this year, and on July 5 he left this "wife," saying he had to go to Manchester for his firm. Instead, on that day, he Tvent through a form of marriage with the other woman, to whom he had proposed on the second day of their acquaintance. He was arrested on his return from Brighton, where the "honeymoon" had been spent. He was remanded on both charges of bigamy, and was said to be ''wanted'' for a case of fraud.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17294, 18 October 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)
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175LIGHTNING BIGAMIST. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17294, 18 October 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)
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