BIGAMY ADMITTED.
BOTH PARTIES CHARGED. BIRTHS OF FIVE CHILDREN. FALSE DECLARATIONS MADE. [BY TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION. •;• ELTHAM, Tuesday. Charges ' of bigamy against George Dines, and Elizabeth Bishop, were admitted in. the Magistrate's Court , to-day ; also five counts against Dines of making false declarations to the Registrar of Births respecting five children of his bigamous marriage. Accused pleaded guilty to all the charges and were committed to the Supreme Court at New Plymouth for sentence. Bail was allowed. Regarding the declarations as to the children's births, the police stated Dines informed the registrar that he and Mrs. Bishop were married'in England in 1910. In a statement, Dines said he lived with the Bishops for two weeks in 1914. When he left Mrs. Bishop accompanied him. He married her in Wellington in . 1918 believing the marriage legal as William Bishop had given a false name.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18460, 25 July 1923, Page 8
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