SWANSEA MAN’S ROMANCE AND RUIN — BIGAMY CASE BEFORE THE ASSIZES
SWANSEA MAN’S ROMANCE AND RUIN — BIGAMY CASE BEFORE THE ASSIZES South Wales Daily Post One of the first cases listed for hearing at the Glamorgan Assizes in July 1936 — as published in the South Wales Daily Post — concerned a sensational post‑war romance that ended in the dock at Swansea. Before Mr. Justice Du Parcq stood John Aubrey Phillips , aged forty, a checker employed at the Swansea docks, who pleaded guilty to bigamy . While his lawful wife, Ada Maud Phillips , was still alive, he had gone through a form of marriage with Rose Gwendoline Morris at Cardiff on August 31. Miss May Williams appeared for the prosecution, outlining Phillips’s background: a man of respectable Swansea parentage , educated at Swansea Grammar School , later serving with distinction in the R.A.S.C. and the Welch Regiment during the war. After demobilisation he worked at the Office of Works in Whitehall , where he met and married his wife. Restless in peacetime, he became a commercial traveller and...
