GUILTY OF BIGAMY.
MAN COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. WELLINGTON, December 17. William Richard Thomas, a traveller, aged 39, appeared in the Magistrate’s . Court before Mr E. Page, S.M., charged with having been married in New South Wales and going through the form of marriage at the registrar’s office in Wellington, thereby committing bigamy. He pleaded not guilty and was committed for trial. The police said the accused had made a statement to them to the effect that he was separated from his wife in New South Wales shortly after his marriage and when he was again married in Wellington he believed that his first wife was dead, as he had received a newspaper cutting from a friend in 1927 which said that a woman, presumably his wife, had been killed in a motor accident.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4006, 23 December 1930, Page 68
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