Married Nine Times.
William Morgan, 49, a laborer, but who was well-dressed, and presented a respectable appearance, pleaded guilty to an indictment which charged him with feloniously marrying Mary Elizabeth Furtado, his wife being alive at the time. The prosecutrix, a young and fashionably dressed woman, said she became acquainted with the prisoner two years ago, and he then represented that he was a bachelor. She had no idea that ho was a married man until a woman oarao to her house with two children, and claimed him as her husband, and lie was taken into custody on the present charge. It appeared that the prisoner had been previously convicted of bigamy, and sentenced to live years’ penal servitude, and a detective who was engaged in the case said that the enquiries ho had made led him to believe that the prisoner had married nine women, representing himself on every occasion either as a widower or a bachelor. Ho never did any work, hut seemed to have lived on the unfortunate women whom he induced to marry him. The prosecutrix said that during the time she had lived with prisoner he treated her kindly, and she did not wish to press for a severe punishment upon him. The Deputy-Recorder ordered him penal servitude for ten yoaca.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 189, 24 June 1873, Page 7
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216Married Nine Times. Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 189, 24 June 1873, Page 7
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