Man Admits Double Bigamy
AUCKLAND, July 2L Tliree women were witnesses in the Police Court todav when Russell Godfrey Patchett, aged 45, printer, admitted that he was a double bigamist. Tlie Magistrate, Mr. J. Morling, ordered the names of the two women not to be publislied. Patchett \s real wife said she married him at Nelson in June, 1941, and had two children. The second "wife" said tliat while living at Auckland early in 1947, she corresponded as a pen friend with accused and at his request she went to Wellington and then to- Christchurch where they went through a form of marriage in June. A week later accused said he was already married and they parted. 7, The tliird "wife," aged 24, said she kept coinpany with accused whoin she knew as Norman Janies Scott and went through a form of marriage in an Auckland Methodist Church last May. She took it for granted he was a single man. Pleading guilty to both charges of bigamy, Patchett was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Ile did not seek bail.
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Chronicle (Levin), 22 July 1949, Page 5
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