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On this week in... 1907

Much-married man

On 18 September 1907, Albert William McMillan was tried at the Circuit Court in Kalgoorlie for bigamy. It was alleged that he had still been married to a woman named Annie Bennet Taylor when he married his present wife Amanda Beatrice May in November 1905. In his defense, McMillan stated that the marriage to Taylor had in fact been illegal, because at the time his divorce to another woman, Marie Lucy Boyland, had not been finalised. Upon these facts being ascertained, the jury was directed to bring in a verdict of not guilty. McMillan was then charged with a second count of bigamy in reference to his marriage to Taylor, of which he was subsequently convicted and sentenced to eighteen months hard labour.

This trial report is from Kalgoorlie Miner

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