MAN WITH TWO WIVES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3864, 3 April 1928, Page 66

MAN WITH TWO WIVES.

AUCKLAND, March 26. Pleas of guilty on both charges were entered by Albert Beard, alias Harry Carr, aged 31, who was charged with having committed bigamy by going through a form of marriage at Tuamarina on January 26 last, when he was a person already married, and with having made a false declaration to the registrar of marriages by describing himself as a bachelor The prosecution stated v that both charges arose out of the same set of -circumstances In February, 1925, the ac cused was married to a Miss Bilderbeck at Dannevirke. They lived together for months ir-'t there wns one child of marriage. He was then known as Cai The accused cam? under notice of the police- in Blenheim in ■January last, when he went, through a form of marriage at Tuamarina, this t’m e under the name of Albert Beard The second “ wife ” bad died in hospital on March 15.

The police evidence was that the accused, after his arrest, said that lis second wife was of a very excitable nature, and this, would have led to her ■ommitting suicide if he, had not • .married her. He decided that he had better marry her to save her life.

The accused elected to. give evidence. He said: “I plead guilty to the <haige of bigamy in the circumstances. At the time I got married I thought that I was doing the right thing, and even no”. my conscience does not tell m e I am guilt’, of doing wrong. That is all I have (o say.” - The accused formally pleaded guilty to both charges, and was committed to’ the Supreme Court at Wellington for sentence.