BIGAMY CHARGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 6, 4 May 1912, Page 7

BIGAMY CHARGES.

A ‘sensational sequel to a recent divorce case occupied the Magistrate at Bow Street on March 10th, when Hugh L. Ames (against whom a decree nisi was granted rather more than a week previously) and a woman with whom lie had gone through the ceremony of marriage were both accused of bigamy: Hugh Lawrenson Ames', 45, independent, of Oneniston Gardens, Kensington, of marrying Flora Matilda Wilson during the lifetime of Ids wife; Flora Matilda Ames, 44, of marrying Ames, while her husband, Charles Northa.sk Wilson, was alive. The offence alleged was a marriage at Kensington on January 27th, 1911. Inspector Fowler produced a copy of a marriage register entry which detailed a marriage in the registrar's office, Paddington, between Charles Northask Wilson and Flora Matilda Montanaro, divorced wife of Arthur Moutanaro. The woman: I am not divorced. I divorced him. I was never divorced in my life. The defendants were remanded, bail in £SOO for the two being accepted. Both the accused are authors, it was stated in the Divorce Division. Amts obtained in an Idaho Court a divorce from his wife in England, and in California went through the ceremony of marriage with Mrs Wilson, who had sailed from England upon the ship in which he went out. When they returned to England he married her again. Mrs Wilson, counsel, said, was a lecturer-upon the purity of divorce, and had written a book on the subject. .\t o Document?'(■('dating to tlnj tilvorrc proceedings in Klhho were put in by counsel, who 'pointed out that the American petition stated that Mrs Arnes had lived in Idaho and had deserted her husband. According to the 'documents) Mrs Wilson declared that when Antes lost his fortune h'ikNile did not wish to V i. Jh'ic go abroad with hypj, ,and had,{told Mrs Wilson that she liked somebody else. Mrs Wilson, it was recorded,' also declared she had seen Mrs Amp's jjn America, and believed she was- now in Now York. Answering the judge upon these documents, Mrs Ames said she had never boon in Idaho. Counsel for the husband observed that the document read was new to him, and later announced that the respondent, acting on Ids advice, would not further contest the case. Mrs Wilson, through her counsel, denied the accuracy of the statements attributed to her in the American record, and said that she had not seen Mrs Ames in New York. His Lordship commented, in disposing of the case, that if any such evidence was given by the intervener he could only say it was extraordinary. Amos and Mrs Wilson, it was stated, had become president and vicepresident respectively of the “Society of the Golden Key” and “The Order of Knights of Sir Galahad.” Flora Ames told the court kcr husband before ho '.married her was attache to the British Embassy at Washington. He settled an income of £250 a year on her, and she had means of her own. Ames is a brother to Major Oswald Ames, who is nearly 7ft. in height, and has been described as “the tallest man in the British Army.” A recent cablegram announced that both accused had been sentenced to six months imprisonment.