WARRANT OFFICER’S BIGAMY
WOMAN AN INNOCENT PARTY (P.A.) AUCKLAND, October 15. Pleading- guilty in the Police Court te a charge of bigamy, Henry John Clissold Hartley, aged 45, a warrant officer who returned to New Zealand in June after serving with the New Zealand Forces in the Middle East, was to-day committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. The police said that Hartley was bora in England and. was married in Southern Rhodesia in 1928. In Auckland, in February, 1940, he went through the form of marriage with a woman whom he met on, the ship coming from England in 1938. In a statement to the police Hartley said he came tc New Zealand thinking there were better, opportunities , here. Ha expected to bring out iis wife and two children later. When' he arrived in England with the Second Echelon he visited his wife and children. He returned to New Zealand from the Middle East in June last as an instructor. The woman with whom he went through the form of marriage in Auckland was an innocent party, and was unaware that he was already married. The accused was released on bail ol! £SO.
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Evening Star, Issue 24327, 16 October 1942, Page 2
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194WARRANT OFFICER’S BIGAMY Evening Star, Issue 24327, 16 October 1942, Page 2
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