BIGAMY ALLEGED

Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1932, Page 3

BIGAMY ALLEGED

■■■;’ ; f. . TWO WIVES GIVE EyiDENcfe; | | . HASTINGS, I '.July 'if.j At the Hastings Police Court, th . morning, Jack Fletcher Beet on, al a ' John BeeCspn Fletcher, was chargei before . Justices, with having ou-sly married Mary Evelyn ' Stone,• a Hastings, on August 11-30, accused a] ready having married Ivv Nicholson-, a'i Auckland i-ri; 1922. . Evidence showed that the accused’" legal wife, who Is -aged 31, had o® child by accused, and obtained i -separation,' maintenance, and guard ianship oriel's two years after j'th marriage, and intended to .'institute j but did not 'institute divorce proceec . ings, against the husband. The’ woman with whom accused i : AC to have g-fve- through, th j form' of a bigamous marriage, gw j evidence. "-She also had a.., b; accused, and until \vas un . QvvVu-e.:.,'4it ,ac ‘4-i.U.w..," already. ,mar , 1 lied. iA. v a.-ud' the. legal yff&.jhad; hvec I jit,!!-fVyU’jil.ancl, Thames anjd i( ,Rpt))f}ia. [ Ir£ her .evidence,. the ieg^ ; vwi|fi,»tat ed that she, had an offer Of .marriage ; in 1927, but the man whop she "i-she to .marry had not enough money t< pay'-.clqr. tihe., - necessary pro needing®. •- : m;:;... T'he other woman concerned:,: statei that she was willing to-marry ? accuse, if able to do so, and that j hp.-phad bee -most honourable --in his - conduct to •wards. her. ..’va;q ~.dj

Accused pipad-ed. not guilty to th charge of [bigamy, and was committe. for trial. To a further charge of -making a f-a.l-'-e declaration, he plead© not guilty also.