A BIGAMY CASE.
WOMAII SENT TO GAOL.
At Perth (W.A.) on November sth Chief Justice MacMillan, in the Criminal Court, dealt with a peculiar bigamy case.-..' Beatrice Elizabeth Xixon was, last session, prosecuted by Fred Xixon for marrying Herbert Ovey, a railway employee, at Pinjarrah, she having, two years before, married Xixon in XeW Zealand.
Acfcfrsed*' strenuously denied having ever 'married 1 or cohabited with Nixon, but'admitted she had paid him a large proportion of' her earnings while in West Australia. This was blackmail, extorted by Nixon under threat of publishing discreditable family secrets. The jury disagreed, but the woman was convicted.
On the re-trial to-day, Mr Justice MacMillan sentenced her to only one
month, in order that her child might
not be born in gaol, adding that if she had thrown herself on the mercy of the court, instead of making blackmailing charges against Nixon, it might not have been necessary to sentence her at all.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 65, 17 November 1913, Page 7
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157A BIGAMY CASE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 65, 17 November 1913, Page 7
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