CHARGE OF BIGAMY
FARMER COMMITTED TOE "" SENTENCE'.' "" • By Telegraph—Press 'Association. Auckland, June 30. : In the' Police Court, a retired farmer named Alfred Clarence Mitchell admitted , a charge of bigamy, that, being already--married, lie on May- 4 went through a form of marriage i?ith. Grace Appleby. Aoousei stated that, though he waa not generally a, drinking inan, he was, at the time of the bigamous marriage, suffering, from theieffepts of drini, and ,dis , not,f ully ~realise;wli.at wss.doingi.He admitted that'the copy-of the'pertificafe of his original marriage to' Clftra' Lee 'at: Wellington in J895 was «. • trua copy. Grace Appleby pve evidence that she and her mother were introduced to qi a registry office. Accused's pa-Tjip was given as. Burnett. She became engaged to him, and -later they we,r.t througlt a form of marriage • before' the Deputy Registrar.. She wag now only 18 yeais lof aga. Accused- was committed to. the I Supreme Court for sentence. -
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2812, 1 July 1916, Page 15
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152CHARGE OF BIGAMY Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2812, 1 July 1916, Page 15
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