BIGAMY CHARGE.
WOMAN’S DOMESTIC VENTURES. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AIICKLAND, Thursday. A middle-aged woman, Minnie Jlorrocks, was charged with bigamy, having gone through a form of marriage at Auckland on December 21, 1921, with George Earl, while her husband, William Arthur Meredith, was still i alive. The latter, who is now a tailor at .Christchurch, gave evidence that accused was In his employ in Monmouthshire as a tailoress when ho married her in 1912. She stated she was then a widow. In a statement to the police accused said her first husband died in Pretoria. She then went to Meredith, but did not consider she was married to him because Meredith had told her he was already married. After she had finished drawing Meredith’s war pay (on her marriage lines with him) she came to New Zealand and lived with a chef at an Auckland Hotel, later meeting Earl and marrying him. Accused was committed for trial. Bail was allowed.
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Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17802, 29 August 1929, Page 7
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