GUILTY OF BIGAMY.
WOMAN COMMITTED FOR . SENTENCE. Auckland, May 21. , Harvey Katherine Johnson, aged 36, appeared at the Police Court today on a charge of bigamy. Evidence was given that in September, 11)16, a retired farmer, Arthur Edwin Feathcrstone, went through the form of marriage with accused in the Registrar’s office at Auckland. Accused gave the name of Kato Kavanagh, and stated that she was single. Shortly after they separated, and Feathcrstone got information that accused was already married when she went through the form of marriage with him. Featherstone had the marriage annulled. When interviewed by a constable, accused admitted that in 1906 she married a labourer named John Bjorin Johnson. After living i with the latter two years, she left him, with his consent. She went to the Islands, and lost sight of Johnson. but subsequently learned that he had gone to the war. She tho-i light that after she had been eight years away and that he had gone to the war without having made provision for her, she was free of him. Accused pleaded guilty, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1830, 23 May 1918, Page 3
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188GUILTY OF BIGAMY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1830, 23 May 1918, Page 3
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