A MUCH-MARRIED MAN.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3077, 23 December 1908, Page 5

A MUCH-MARRIED MAN.

CHARGES AGAINST FLYNN

By Telegraph—Press Association. DUNEDIN, December 22.

At the Police Court to-day, before Mr Kenrick, S.M., Thomas Patrick Flynn, charged with having on February 4th, 1904, being then a married man, gone through the form of marriage with Mary Ann Pearson Skinner, and also with having on November 3rd, 1908, being then married, gone through the form of marriage with Isabella Grant. Chief-Detective Herbert, after outlining the facts said that accused had • intimated that he intended to plead guilty in the Supreme Court.

Margaret Ann Flynn gave evidence as to her marriage with accused at Arrowtown on November 15th, 1899. After living there about three years accused went to Canterbury and Dunedin. In 1904 she came to Dunedin, and after a separation of about six months due to witness' illhealth he lived with her. During the separation accused said he had been boarding somewhere. Owing to the way accused was coming and going witness complained, and he admitted he had married another woman. Her marriage certificate was mislaid. She had charged accused with taking 1 it, but he laughed at her.

Evidence as to the second marriage was given by Mary Ann Pearson Skinner, who said that about eight months after marriage accused admitted he had another wife, and she ceased to cohabit with him. Jane Johnston and Rev. Hewitson gave evidence regarding the third marriage. Evidence was also given by Isabella Grant, Henry Maywell (Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages) and H. W. Roberts (clerk). An application had been made to Arrowtown for a copy of the firit marriage certificate, but as it had not come to hand accused was remanded till the 30th inst.