A ROMANTIC BIGAMIST.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3558, 21 August 1920, Page 3

A ROMANTIC BIGAMIST.

SECRET WEDDING SEQUEL,

"My crime is one of loving too well, and to the exclusion of all other considerations" This was a passage in a letter written by Reginald William Weeks (29), of Mansfield Road, Astcn, Birmingham, to the Bath magistrates, who eventually committed him on a charge of bigamy.

He was married in scret, and while in (he army fell in love at first sight, with another woman, was the story he told. His first marriage was to Florence Alice Morris, at Bath, in 19.11. and ii is alleged that'' he went through a wedding ceremony with Emily Winifred Sishop at Great Malvern on April 5 last. "A GREAT MISTAKE."

Weeks produced a statement in which he said that his marraige in 1911 had been a great mistake. Miss Morris had lived in his father's house and. he married her secretly.

They parted at the church door, and both he and she lived with his father without their marriage being suspected. "When war broke out he joined up and while training at Great Malvern in 1915 he met Miss Bishop.,, He continued: — .

"From the first hour I spent in her company T felt that here, indeed. I had met my rightful companion. But too late. Friendship ripened into love. T obtained permission to correspond with her, but lately decided to end the correspondence, and for ~;„.■'.,(. r ., p „j!i,« nr! l ffn- pnsse;i be ween us. "T \v:\s r t'MD-Vi to England in January. 1918. and was in hospital at Cardiff, and with the conviction that my days of active sorvice were over a great longing came over me for the love and sympathy I had rejected, hit' I wrote to Miss Bishop asking for forgiveness, and begging her to let me see her for old time's sa^ve.

"MY FATE WAS SEALED.,"

"Many letters of friendship followed and the desired meeting took place in April, 1918. "From that flay there was for me no going back. My fate was sealed. I had found an all-absorbing love, and for better or for worse I knew I should keep that love, and so I beg to submit the fact that my crime is one of loving too well, and to the exclusion of all other considerations."