HUSBAND 18; WIFE 37.
BIGAMY CHARGE SEQUEL. As far back as 1887 a boy of 18, Arthur Healey, now a motor-boat proprietor, of Littlehampton, married a widow of 37 with seven children. A few weeks ago he was charged with bigamy at Westminster.
Over 20 years ago his wife obtained a separation from him,• and in 1012 he went through a__ form of marriage with a young woman, Emma Barne. Healey’s wife was alive until August of last year, and the prosecution alleged that he knew this when he married Emma Barne. One of his wife’s daughters said she remembered as a girl Healey living with her riiother. I hen-came proceedings and the separation. Healey visited them after this, and said her mother was nothing to him; he only married her to take her •fiatne. He said he ought to have married witness’ sister, not hei mother.
Healey, it was alleged, had tried to persuade his wife to get a divorce, but she refused. He was committed for trial.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2399, 2 March 1922, Page 1
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169HUSBAND 18; WIFE 37. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2399, 2 March 1922, Page 1
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