WOMAN! ACQUITTED OF BIGAMY CHARGE.
Hamilton, .Last Night. A charge of bigamy was preferred in the Supreme Court this afternoon against a middle-aged woman, Alice Elizabeth Godfrey. According to the Crown Prosecutor, accused, whose maiden name was Annie Elizabeth Trueman, married, Henry Godfrey at the office of the Registrar, Wellington, in 1902. After five or six years, she came with her husband to Auckland, where, she left hi|m in 1922. In 1926, she went through a form of marriage at the office; of Hid Registrar at Hamilton with William Leonard Hunt. In evidence, prisoner admitted her marriage with Hunt, stating she believed her husband was dead at the time. She read a notice of the death of one Henry Godfrey in the Waikato Times. The ICirown Prosecutor: And did you not -trouble to make any further inquiries about him? —I did not think 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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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3913, 2 March 1929, Page 3
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178WOMAN! ACQUITTED OF BIGAMY CHARGE. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3913, 2 March 1929, Page 3
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