COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1185, 14 November 1884, Page 3

COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.

.At the Chrwtchurcfi- r :Polira‘ Court .last week James ,A. Ladhroot was,charged with bigamy. The following evidence was given s’ —The Rev.W. A.' Pastde. at’ prriwot in* cnrat;ent of Avonside, neposeTthatdnrrag the temporary absence of the Rev K. A. iogard from the Colony, fn.m October. 1877. to June, 1873, he bad note i heat of St. Lube’s, On Jmie 6, 1878 be ha<l m.tried accuse.! to Mary Maria Trivett; in St. Luke’s Church. Accused gave the name of Ladbrook. George Ljvibro.k, biotherof accused, proved that the accused and his lawiul wife, bad lived -togethi'r at Pi-elilileton *or three and a-half year*, ami that they had had three children. Kbzabeth Lament elated that'sbe had lived with her fa her, who w.>* a farmer at Doylcstbn. Was twenty tvs n years of ■ age. Knew? the Hptuse.i ; had .known him since March last, when he was employed threshing at. her father’s farm. Accused told her he wjs a single man, and said he bad d «en living in oouthl.ridce. He remained th ashing for a week, and afterwards came back occasion ally to see witness. He used to writ -to , wltners, the letters generally coming from S ok'inni. When he first came accu-mn naked witness to be bis wife, and witness con -ented in Muyla-t. Her father consented a id accnc id asked him ip. be.r presence. Was .married to him in ■‘■t. Luke’s Church on Oc ober 9 last, tiy the Rev E A. Lingan. Went from 1 church to Col ins’s Hotel, and lived as man and wife.for two weeks in Hereford street. Accused told witness that the police were after him. that he hid got a letter from Sontblni ge, bud it Was not, true ho had -another wife. It was bis brother’s wife. , Accused • Lit witness pn October 25, end she bad not seen him avaio until now._ The Rev E A. gave conotiorative evidence. He had performed the ceremony of marriage Iwtweea accused and Miss Lament, and in answer to witness accused had said that he had not been married 'brfore. Accused, baViiifg bean cautioned in the Usual Way, said, “I' have nor hing to say only ' that they ■ were. tuld several timet that I was married " Accused was then formerly committed for trial.. At the sane court yesterday Albert Payne was charged with pet jury in having sworn falsely during the hearing of an in* format! n charging two constables with per jmy. He was committed for (rid. ’ His wife was discharge 1.