BIGAMY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 443, 8 December 1908, Page 4

BIGAMY.

Auckland, Dec. 5

At the Police Court to-day Albert Kruest Trail appeared in answer to a charge of having committed bigamy on Jilly i6th, 1902, at Coromandel. Eleanor Kelly, a married woman, said that in March, 1890, the accused was married to her sister. The latter was about 15 years of age at the time of her marriage, but she and her husband separated some time after. Witness’s sister was still alive. Chief Detective Marsack said that on November 27th, he charged the accused with the present offence, and he said “I thought there would be something of this.” He went on to say that he did not deny his first marriage, but did not call his second alliance bigamous. for his wife had been away from him for ten or eleven years before he married the second wife, and before the second ceremony he was told she was dead. Two years ago Ethel E. Kerwin, the women he married the second time, said she had heard his first wife was alive, but he could not believe it, thinking that it alive she would have made some inquiry about the children. Accused told witness that before he married Miss Kerwin a solicitor told him it was all right. The accused was committed to the Supreme Court for trial. He reserved his defence.