HUSBAND 18: WIFE 37.
BIGAMY CHARGE SEQUEL. As for back as 1887 ,a boy of 18, Arthur Healey,. now' a motor-boat proprietor, of Littlehampton, married a widow of 37 with seven children.' A few weeks ago he was charged with.bTgamy at Westminster. ' ' -..' . Over 20 years ago his wife obtained a separation from him, and in 1912 he went through a form of marriage with a young woman, Emma Barne. Healey's wife was alive until.August of last year, and the prosecution alleged that he knew this when ho married Emma Barne. One of his wife's daughters said sho remembered as a girl.Healey living with her mother. Then came proceedings and the separation. Healey visited them after this and said her 'mother was nothing to him.; he only married her to take her name. He said he ought to have married witness' sister, not her; mother.
Healey, it was alleged, had tried to persuade his wife to get a divorce, but she refused, He was'committed for trial,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18025, 25 February 1922, Page 2 (Supplement)
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