GUILTY OF BIGAMY
returned Maori soldier, Frederick James Ross, aged 32 (Mr. Noble) stood trial on a charge of bigamvin i I JP rem ? Court before Mr Justice Fair and a jury. Meredith, for the Crown July 1997 to C a U '\ C r Was . married in Juiy, iyto a Maori girl unripr the name of Kingi. They lived years together and then parted The wife would say that in 1933 he wrote a s ki ns her to return to him and she did not reply, in 1940 when ho was a spldier he met a Maori i fnrm UC f nd ?nd we "t through the form of marriage with her before a Maori minister. He went overseas and had now returned. In a state ment to the police the accused said fernVwiftV' 8 he ha " ! irom nis wife for over three vear? marrv a aeal!; tomatlca!ly em,tled a «M at ssrie'aA e ,tev,;with whom he was told his wife S™ her™ 8 W " h had got =■ SvoVce After a retirement of 'ess than an CTiltv ill Ur^ retUrne(l a verrlict of j Prisoner was remandec ar sentence.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 167, 17 July 1942, Page 4
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190GUILTY OF BIGAMY Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 167, 17 July 1942, Page 4
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