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Cora Maynor charged with perjury, 1929

New Jersey Courier 9 Aug 1929 HELD IN $200 FOR PERJURY; DENIED PAST MARRIAGES Cora Maynor, colored, of South Toms River, who swore she was not married when she and Charles Conway of South Toms River were wed by a Justice of the Peace in that borough, was charged with perjury last Friday before recorder William R. Leary. It appeared that Cora was married twice previously. Her first husband died but the whereabouts of her second is a mystery. She was held in $200 bail for the grand jury. Effie Smith and Charles Smith, who were witnesses to the ceremony and acquainted with the previous ceremonies, and Conway the husband, were also held as witnesses.