TALKED IN SLEEP

Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1926, Page 1

TALKED IN SLEEP

A bigamy charge. [by TELEGRATH PEll PRESS ASSOCIATION.! WELLINGTON, May 27. The story of a husband who talked too much in his sleep, and let bis wife into the secret that lie had another wife in Australia, was told during the hearing' of a bigamy care against Leslie Knott, engineer, aged 32, who pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence. His wife. Dal la Bnrusso, always lmd the idea that lie had- another one somewhere, and one night in his sleep he said something about being frightened of the police and called upon his real wife. He then left Bnrusso. She said when she first met Ivnott he was in a uniform of gold braid and told her be was a doctor, but he was only a,steward on a ship. She was married in 1921 and he had hardly ever kept her properly. Accused’s own statement to the police was that his first wife died in. 1919 and next year he married a girl ot 13, against liis will. A fortnight after the wedding he ran away to sea. In December, 1920, he met Burusso in Wellington and married her in 1921. Ho was satisfied his wife was alive then, -and is now. Ho had never