BIGAMY CASE.
ELOPEMENT AND PURSUIT. (By Telegraph— Press Association.) I Palmerston North, March 8. In the Polieo Court this morning Charles Ilavvey, a young man, pleaded guilty to a charge of bigamy, and wtW committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Tho case . presented rather unusual features. According to tho evidence, accused married on December 27 Inst n young woman named Riley at New .Plymouth. Next thing Harvey turned up at Franldon, and eloped' with the daughter of u resident, and brought hci to Palmerston. The father followed them up, ami found them here. Tho girl is Mill in her teens. A certain amount of piessuro was brought to bear on accused, and lie went to the Registrar's Ollicft with the giri, and went through tho form of raarriago. Rumours got about, and when accused was interrogated he made a clean breast of it. The girl in evidence said she was seventeen, but the age on tho murringe certificate is shown as sixteen.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1694, 10 March 1913, Page 4
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163BIGAMY CASE. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1694, 10 March 1913, Page 4
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