ALLEGED BIGAMY
TRAVELLER CHARGED. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, December 17. William Richard Thomas, a traveller, aged 39, appeared in the Magistrate’s Court before Mr Page, S.M., charged that, having been married in New South Wales,-he went through a form of marriage at the Registrar's Office, Wellington, and thereby committed bigamy. Be pleaded not guilty and was committed for trial. The police said the accused had made a statement to them to the effect that he separated from his wife in New South Wales shortly after the marriage and, when he again married in Wellington, he believed his first wife to be dead,, as, in 1927 he received a newspaper cutting from a friend which said that a woman, presumably his wife, had been killed in a motor- accident.
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Southland Times, Issue 21271, 18 December 1930, Page 6
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132ALLEGED BIGAMY Southland Times, Issue 21271, 18 December 1930, Page 6
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