BIGAMY ADMITTED
N.Z. ARMY INSTRUCTOR SENT FOR SENTENCE (P.A) AUCKLAND, this day Pleading guilty in the Police Court-to-day tc a charge of bigamy, Henry John Clissold Hartley, aged 45 years, a warrant officer who returned tc New Zealand in June after serving vffth the New Zealand forces in the Middle East, was committed tc- the Supreme Court for sentence. The police said that Hartley was born in England -and married in Southern Rhodesia in 1928. In Auckland in February, 1940, he went through a form of marriage with a woman whom he met on a ship coming from England in 1933. In a statement to the -oolice. Hartley said he came to New Zealand thinking there were better opportunities here. He expected to bring his Wife and children later. When he arrived in England with the Second Echelon he visited his wife and children and returned to New Zealand from the Middle East in June last as an instructor. The woman with whom ho went through a form of marriage in Auckland was an innocent party and was unaware ‘that he was already married. Bail in -the sum of £SO was allowed.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20916, 16 October 1942, Page 5
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192BIGAMY ADMITTED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20916, 16 October 1942, Page 5
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