STRANGE TALE OF TWO HUSBANDS

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3666, 30 October 1912, Page 3

STRANGE TALE OF TWO HUSBANDS

WOMAN CHARCED WITH BICAMY ON HER OWN CONFESSION.

WITNESS WARNED

• A woman’s strange confession was the feature of a ease at Westminster Police Court when Florence Cailadine, aged ’thirty-one, of Aylesford Street, Pimlico, was charged, on her own confession, with committing bigamy. Inspector Emptage said that the previous evening the woman entered the Rochester Row Police Station and said. ’“I wisli to give myself up for committing bigamy at Windsor in 1903, when I married a Mr. Coyle.” Who then voluntarily made a statement, which was reduced to writing and signed by her. Mr. Francis (tbe magistrate): 1 see by this she says she first married a soldier, who deserted after three days. Then she married another man, lived with him for some time, and then went hack to the first hian. Next she leaves him for the second one, remains with him for several years, and then gives herself up for bigamy. Daniel Coyle, the second “husband,” said lie went through a form of marriage with tbe accused at Windsor Registry Office* in November 1903. Mr. 'Francis: Did you know she was a married woman? —Witness : Yes, sir. Mr. Francis: You had better be careful what you say. You are not obliged to incriminate yourself. CHARGE OF ABETTING. The witness went on to say that they lived together until April I'jO-f, when the. woman left him. *Sho returned early in January the following year, and they had been together ever since. There were two children. Mr Francis: Did she go away with Calladine? Witness: I don’t know, sir, beyond her owil words. I did 1101 know there was such a man, hut according to her own statement she had been living with him again. The Prisoner: I wrote and told you I was going back to my husband. The witness at first admitted this was so and then denied it, adding -that to the best of his recollection the woman wrote that she intended destroying herself. Her mother afterwards wrote. ’idle Prisoner: No, I wrote and told you that you had no claim on me. Mr. Francis (to the witness): Do you know what became of the certificate of the first marriage? * Witness: Yes, I destroyed it. Mr Francis said that at present he did not see much difference between the man and the woman, and thought the police ought to have legal assistance. He remanded the accused. Later in the day the man was charged by Inspector Emptage with aiding and abetting the woman, and be, too, was remanded.