FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 2): Mrs. Mabel LaVerne Saxon Kelley yesterday entered
a plea of guilty to a charge of bigamy and obtained an annulment of the
marriage that brought about the charge in Pima County Superior Court.
Judge William G. Hall suspended the imposition of sentence
upon her plea of guilty to the bigamy charge, putting her on probation for
three years, making one of the conditions of her probation that she refrain
from excessive drinking.
From Judge Evo DeConcini in division No. 2 she obtained an
annulment of her marriage to Andrew J. Kelley on testimony that she was
intoxicated at the time the marriage
occurred.
The charge was brought against her when the mother of her
first husband, Charles T. Jackson, a soldier who was transferred to the county
attorney’s office upon learning of her marriage to Kelley, which occurred April
10.
[“Mrs. Kelly Pleads Guilty To Bigamy,” The Arizona Daily
Star (Tucson, Az.), Jun. 29, 1943, p. 4]
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FULL TEXT (Article 2 of 2): Facing a charge of bigamy, Mabel LaVerne Saxon,
formerly Mabel Courtney, 20, of Tucson,
wife of Private Charles T. Saxon, of the U. S. Marine Corps, waived preliminary
hearing in justice court yesterday and was held to answer to superior court under
bond of $1,000, in default of which she was lodged in the county jail.
According to the complaint of Private Saxon’s mother, Mrs.
R. L. Saxon, 629 East Ninth street, the defendant bigamously married Staff Sgt.
Andrew J. Kelley, of Troutville, Va., then stationed at Davis-Monthan Field,
last April 10, while still the wife of Saxon and drawing an allotment of $50 a
month.
The defendant was arrested Friday afternoon at the Southern
Pacific station by Detective James Herron, of the city police department. She
had just returned from El Paso where Sergeant Kelley is stationed at Biggs
Field.
Private Saxon, formerly a bartender at the Pioneer Hotel,
enlisted in the marines at the outbreak of the war. When reports reached him
last month that his wife had married again, he was in a hospital in the South
Pacific, suffering from malaria, police said.
First information in the case reached city police when
Saxon’s mother read in a newspaper that Mabel Saxon and Andrew Kelley had taken
out a marriage license. Records disclosed that Mabel Courtney married Charles
T. Saxon at Tucson in February, 1940, and that they were divorced and remarried
in 1941.
[“Woman Held On Bigamy Charge – Married Marine and Then
Soldier, According to Court Accusation,” The Arizona Daily Star (Az.), Jun. 30,
1943, p. 7]
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