GAOL FOE BIGAMY
EX-MILKMAID'S CAREER CAR AND OXFORD ACCENT [from a special correspondent] LOXDOX. Dec. 1 An ex-milkmaid dazzled the villagers of Winterbourne Stoke, Wiltshire, by hei; expensive fur coat, her motor-car »nd her Oxford accent. This week her glamorous career was cut short when was sentenced, at Bristol Assizes, to 22 months' haWl labour for bigamy snd obtaining £209 by fraud. "She always liked fancy clothes," •aid Eric Charles Diamond, her legal husband—according to the prosecution —and the second of the three men with *hom she associated during her rise from milkmaid to the "niece of Lady Carlisle," as she termed herself. For over a year Mrs. Harper—in Court she was referred to as Marion Doreeri Patricia Iris Jones, or Diamond Harper—lived better than most People iii the village. She is reputed to have spe-it £6OO in 15 months. Edward Harper, her second "husband,". was stated in Court not only to hare been left penniless by her extravagance, but also saddled with debt.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22922, 28 December 1937, Page 15
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164GAOL FOE BIGAMY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22922, 28 December 1937, Page 15
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