BIGAMY ADMITTED
Couple For Sentence AUCKLAND, Oct. 8. Charges of having committed bigamy were preferred against Lesley Joyce Mitchell, aged 18, and Donald Edgar Alexander Fraser, an officer’s steward in one of H.M.N.Z. ships, in the Magistrate’s Court. Both pleaded guilty. Detective-Sergeant Fell said that the girl was married to a soldier on December 31, 1941. While travelling between Dunedin and Christchurch on her way to Wellington to meet her husband, in March, the girl met Fraser. He persuaded her not to stay in Wellington but to go to Auckland with him. She came to Auckland and stayed with his parents for a time and then they took a flat at Devonport and lived together. Fraser suggested that they get married, although he knew that she was already married, said the girl, and finally she agreed. On April 22, 1942, she went through a form of marriage with Fraser under the name of Leona Josienne Webster. Fraser admitted that he knew the girl was already married. Both accused were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLII, Issue 22398, 9 October 1942, Page 4
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