BOGUS MARRIAGE.
SUPREME COURT SEQUEL. SMALL FINE INFLICTED. By Telegraph.—Press Association Auckland, Last Night. A fine of £2 was imposed at the Supreme Court on Edith MeKay, charged ■with having wilfully made a false declaration in respect to the registration of a birth. The charge arose out of the case heard on January 24, in which the chief wit ness admitted that he had gone through a bogus marriage with accused, and ; at she did not know of the deception until after registering the first child’s birth, the offence being in connection with the second birth. In returning a verdict of guilty, the jury added that the accused had not realised the seriousness of her false entry, and she was therefore entitled to mercy. Hir Honor said the verdict was extremely proper and sensible. The case was really a trivial one of its kind.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 February 1921, Page 5
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144BOGUS MARRIAGE. Taranaki Daily News, 9 February 1921, Page 5
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