Autumn ‘Weds’ Spring
CARPENTER FORGETS WIFE BIGAMY ADMITTED Although his lawful wife was still living, Henry George Osman, a carpenter, aged 45, went through the marriage ceremony with a girl aged 17 at Papakura in October last. At the Police Court to-day he ' pleaded guilty to a charge of bigamy and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. In a statement accused said that he was married first in 1914, but his wife was now in a mental hospital. Last year he kept company with the girl until circumstances necessitated marriage. Before the wedding he told the girl he was a widower. A charge of being £l3O in arrears on a maintenance order was held over in the meantime.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 274, 9 February 1928, Page 17
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120Autumn ‘Weds’ Spring Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 274, 9 February 1928, Page 17
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