CHARGE OF BIGAMY

Southland Times, Issue 19280, 26 June 1924, Page 3

CHARGE OF BIGAMY

MAN’S VARIED CAREER. A man’s romantic career was related in the Criminal Court in Perth, Western Australia, recently. Harry Dann pleaded guilty to a charge of having, during the life of his lawful wife, Anna Dann, gone through the form of marriage with Theodosia Mildred Freeman. Counsel said that Dann went to the Boer War at the age of 16, when he ran away from home, under the name of Harry Newton. He fought for two and a-half years in South Africa, and then joined the Imperial Army in England, subsequently serving in Ireland and India in 1911. In India he married Anna Finer, a Russian girl, and came to Western Australia. He enlisted in the Tenth Light Horse in 1915, re-marrying under his correct name, instead of Newton. Dann returned to Western Australia in 1919, but in consequence of his wife’s refusal to dissociate herself from another woman they separated. In October, 1919, he married the woman Freeman. The latter knew he was already married, and there were now three children. The first Mrs Dann sued for a divorce, and when papers were secured accused admitted his bigamy, and divorce proceedings are now pending Accused, when arrested, had established a well-improved farm on virgin country. The Judge reserved sentence.