DOUBLE BIGAMY.
PECULIAR CABE. BOTH PARTIES RE-MARRY. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Thursday. During the hearing of a charge of bigamy brought against Henry Oliver Nelson in the Police Court to-day, It was revealed that. his wife, who is in England, had also committed bigamy. Nelson was oharged with going through the form of marriage with a woman In Auckland in 1925, when his wife, whom he married in 1917 in Plymouth (England), was still alive. Aocused was formerly a leading stoker in the-sloop Laburnum. Royal Margaret McCallum (31) said that she Intended to re-marry Nelson when he got a divoroe. He ■had always treated her and their children . well. The police .produced a statement by aboused,. saying tha_t in 1924 he received a letter from his mother in England telling him that lie was a free man. He made no further inquiries then, but since had ascertained that his wife had married again in 1929.- She said in a statement that she was happy and never wanted to see him again. Acoused, who was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, was allowed bail.
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Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18778, 28 October 1932, Page 3
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184DOUBLE BIGAMY. Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18778, 28 October 1932, Page 3
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