BIGAMY ADMITTED
UNUSUAL CIRCUM STANCES (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Pleading guilty to a charge of bigamy, a man whose name was ordered to be suppressed, was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. The police stated that the defendant admitted having married a woman in England in January, 1920, and he went through a form of marriage in Pet one this year. Counsel for the accused said the marriage was a war one, arid the woman was his wife only iffy the barest, technicality. He did not live with her and did not meet her after the marriage, and they had not corresponded for 13 years. Hail was allowed.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18263, 5 December 1933, Page 5
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