BIGAMY CHARGE
AGAINST A WOMAN.
HAMILTON, March 1. A charge of bigamy was preferred at the Supreme Court this afternoon against a middle-aged woman, Annie Elizabeth Godfrey. According to the Crown Prosecutor the accused, whose maiden name was Annie Elizabeth Trueman, married Henry Godfrey at the office of the Registrar at Wellington, in 1902. After five or six years she came with her husband to Auckland, where she left him in 1922. In 192 G she went through a form of marriage at the office of the Registrar at Hamilton with Hunt, stating she believed her husband was dead at the. time. She read a notice of the death of Henry Godfrey, in the l< Waikato Times.”
The Prosecutor: And did you not trouble to make any further inquiries about him? “I did .not tihnk it worth while.”
The Crown Prosecutor said a search had been made of the files of the “Waikato Times,” and the alleged notice had not been traced.
The jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1929, Page 2
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