CURIOUS BIGAMY CASE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10591, 8 March 1913, Page 4

CURIOUS BIGAMY CASE.

Per Press Association. Palmerston N., March 8. At the Police Court this morning Charles Harvey, a young man, pleaded guilty to a charge of bigamy, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. The case presented rather unusual features. According to the evidence accused married on December 27th last a young woman named Riley at New Plymouth, There was evidently no honeymoon for the next thing was that Harvey ‘ turned up at Franhton and eloped with the daughter of a resident, and brought her to Palmerston. The father followed them up and found them here. Thejgirlls still in her teens. A certain amount of pressure was brought to bear on accused, and he went to‘the registrar’s office with the?girl and went through the form of marriage. Rumours got about and when accused was interrogated he made a clean breast. The girl in her evidence said she was seventeen, !hut the age on the marriage iCerfcificate was shown as sixteen.