On This Day
On This Day, 26 September 1918
On 26, Sep 2018 | In On This Day | By Nicola Gauld
Evening Despatch
Thursday 26 September 1918
BIGAMY CHARGE AGAINST WOUNDED SOLDIER.
Thomas Flowers, sergeant of the Notts and Derby Regiment, was at Birmingham today committed to the Assizes on a charge of bigamy. Prisoner wore four wound stripes and the ribbon of the Military Medal.
It was stated that prisoner married Eliza Flowers, of 500, George-street, Mansfield, at the Mansfield Registry Office on 15 September, 1914. She had previously lived with prisoner for five years as his wife. He enlisted in the same month as his marriage, and separation allowance had been paid to his wife.
On 3 August, last, it was alleged, the prisoner went through a form of marriage at ‘Great Lister-street with Emily Blackwell, of 50, Cromwell-street, Birmingham. She made his acquaintance as a visitor to a military hospital at King’s Heath. They lived together for three weeks before the prisoner rejoined his unit.
Bail was allowed.
