BIGAMY CHARGE FAILS
WOMAN ACQUITTED THOUGHT HUSBAND DEAD (From Our Own Correspondent) HAMILTON, To-day. Believing her defence that she believed her husband to be dead, a ver*jict of not guilty was returned at the Hamilton Supreme Court yesterday in the case in which Annie Elizabeth Godfrey was charged with bigamy. The Crown Prosecutor (Mr. A. T. Lillies) said that accused, whose Maiden name was Trueman, was mar* to Henry Godfrey at Wellington •n 1902. She left him in Auckland in November, 1922, and on September <l7, she went through a form of marr'a?e with William Leonard Hunt, at Hamilton. detective White said accused admitted leaving her husband in 1922, n <i going through a form of marriage n 1926. in 1924 she read of the 1 “ath of a man named Henry Godfrey, n d she assumed that it was her husband.
The defence was urged that th< ornan genuinely believed her lius a nd to be dead.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 602, 2 March 1929, Page 1
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