FALSE DECLARATION.
CHARGE AGAINST BELGIAN. TWO MARRIAGES ALLEGED. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. A charge of making a false declaration under the .Marriage Act was preferred against a Belgian, Leon Constant Francois Janssen, in the Hamilton Magistrate's Court this morning. Messrs C. J. W. Barton and W. J. Walsh, J.P.'s were on the Bench. John McKittrick, deputy-registrar of marriages, Hamilton, said there was a record of the marraige between Janssens and Jean Sterling on December 3f, 1927. Janssens stated that he was a barman by occupation, aged 30. He said he was a bachelor in the declaration.
Detective While read a statement by accused in which he admitted being married to May Lord in the Roman Catholic Church at Tokoinaru Bay on December 27, 1921. Accused was i naturalised British subject and came to New Zealand from Sau Francisco in 1918.
Jn a statement to the police accused said lie did not know whether his first wife was alive. He did not tell Sterling he had been married before) He knew lie was making a false declaration when he said lie was a bachelor when marrying Sterling. Mr.C. L. MacDiarmid, for accused, pleaded not guilty. He was committed to the Supreme Court for trial, bail being fixed at £SOO, comprising two sureties of £250 each.
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Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17385, 23 April 1928, Page 4
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