A BIGAMY CASE
WOMAN CONFESSES MR GUILT. Uy Telegraph-PR-.-.- .is> >f-in tion Auckland, May 21. Harvey Katherine Johnson, aged 3G, appeared at' the Polite Court to-day on a charge of bigamy. Evidence was given that in September, 1016, a retired tarmer, Arthur Edwin Featherstone, weirt through the form of nmrringe with accused in the Registrar's ofiico at Auckland. Accused gave the name of Kate K.cAtiiagh, and stated that she was single. Shortly after .they separated, and Featherstone got information that accused was already married when ftho went through the form ol marriage with him. Featherstone had the marriage annulled. When interviewed bv a constable, accused admitted, that in lliOG she married a labourer named John Bjorin Johnson. After living with the latter two years she left him, with-Ins consent. She went to the Islands and lost sight of Johnson, but subsequently learned that he had gone to the war. She thought that after she had been ei''ht years away and that he had gono to the war without having made provision for her she was free of him. Accused pleaded guilty, ana was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 208, 22 May 1918, Page 8
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190A BIGAMY CASE Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 208, 22 May 1918, Page 8
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