BIGAMY.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 242, 23 September 1884, Page 2

BIGAMY.

Walter Tricker, alias George Henry Marshall, was brought up yesterday morning, charged with feloniously marrying one Emily Harris, of Gisborne, on the 17th March 1884, his former wife being then alive and resident at Auckland. Mr. Turton appeared for the accused. The Sergeant stated a warrant was issued here on the 9th of August, the accused being then supposed to be in the neighbourhood of Auckland, and the wairant was forwarded there for execution, but accused in the meantime shifted down in the direction of Wellington. His first wife obtained a warrant for his apprehension for wife desertion which it will appear was forwarded to Wellington, and on that he was arrested. When he was brought before the Court Mi l Thompson, of the Auckland police, wired that the warrant for accused’s apprehension for bigamy had been forwarded to We) ington, but he was brought before the Court before the arrival of the warrant and was remanded to Auckland on the charge of wife desertion, and when he got here he was brought ashore the police being aware of the existence of a warrant for his arrest for bigamy, and he was now brought up to answer that charge, but he (the Sergeant) would apply for a remand for eight days, as evidence would have to be obtained from Bulls, near Wanganui, and also from Auckland.

Mr. Turton opposed the application for a remand and asked for the prisoner’s discharge. According to the Sergeant’s showing he had had the prisoner arrested on the strength of a telegram received from Mr. Sherman, whom, he supposed, was some authority in the police department. He did not consider that a person travelling should be liable to be arrested without a warrant being produced, and he did not see as that was so how his Worship could uphold the present charge. The application could only be made by Miss Harris. She had laid the information which was before bis Worship, and it could only be on that ground that his Worship could act in the matter. He would ask that the telegrams received by the police be placed on record, because should the prisoner be eventually discharged, he would have his remedy against Mr. Sherman for taking the law into his own hands. The accused was remanded from Wellington to Auckland, and the warrant for his remand was on the same steamer he was travelling up by, and yet the Sergeant, on his own authority, takes him from off that steamer. His Worship thought these were conflicting warrants. One from Auckland for wife desertion, and the warrant here for bigamy. Mr. Turton said the accused was unanswerable for that.

His Worship granted a remand for eight days, substantial bail being allowed, viz., £2OO in himself and two sureties of £lOO each, which must be good and sound.