BIGAMY CHARGE ADMITTED
STATEMENT MADE TO POLICE.
By Telegraph.—Pressi Association.
Wellington, Last Night.
William Richard Thomas, traveller, aged 39, appeared at the Magistrate’s Court .before. Mr,'E. Page, S.M., charged that,’ having been married in New South Wales, he went thiough a form of marriage’at the registrar’s office, Welling* ton, and thereby committed bigamy. He pleaded guilty and was committed for trial.
The police said accused had made a statement to them to the effect that he was separated from his wife in New South Wales shortly after marriage, and when he again married in Wellington he believed his , first wife was dead, ,as be had received a newspaper cutting from a friend in 1927 which said a woman presumably his wife bad been killed in a motor accident.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1930, Page 11
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