BIGAMY ADMITTED

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21414, 5 March 1935, Page 19

BIGAMY ADMITTED

—-♦ COMMITTED TOR SENTENCE •HESS ASSOCIATION 'ltl-EURiM.) AUCKLAND, March 4. Maitland John Lee Smith Sinclair, 39 years of age, a wool grader, was committed for sentence 10-day on a charge of bigamy. He admitted that, having been married in 1925 at Hastings to Lilian Beddingtield, he went through the form of marriage with a young woman in Auckland on January 29 tins year. His wife gave evidence that her husband told her lie was a widower with one child. In 1931 she discovered that lie had four children and that he was posing as a single man and making love to a widow. She then secured a separation order and an order for maintenance of herself and their two children. He had not paid her very often. A woman of 22. vho went throug; the form of marriage, said that after eight days she discovered that he was married already and left him. In a s*» tement to the police the accused said that he was very much in love with the voung woman and was afraid that if he told her the truth lie might lose her. That was the only rea:on why he went through the form of marriage. The prisoner did not apply for bail.