THE DOUBLE LIFE

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 20 February 1917, Page 5

THE DOUBLE LIFE

! ALLEGED AGAINST AUCKLAND i MAN. A CHARGE OF Oh'AMT. An aiiegatici of living ""a double ; iiie" is involv.ju in a charge oi bigamy i i , ° John Hugh Hall {'24:), who was arrcstled at Ponsonby on Satuiday aneri noon by Detective Cullen and c.ii- ! stable Amies, ihe circumstances somewhat unusual. Accused was mar- | ned in Auckland three or four years j back, and lived with his wife under ! norma: cendiiions until about a month j ago. Then, aecoruhig to her story, he j left the home in the Zdoii Terrace disi trict without ex'hauaAon, and in the ! course oT inquiries she ascertaA.ed 'that he was still in the city, apparently boarding in the Ponsonby district. j She made complain about his being j unduly frequently in-the company of another young wouian. ihe hitter was approached oa the sublet ?ud hn"i«--nantly declared that the gentleman with whom she had been seen was not Mr. Hall, but her husband, .John Robert Smith, auci Run th&\ nad ;„en married by a minister within the past month, and were living with her parents. The sequel was the arrest oa Saturday of a man charged as JUnn H. Hall .alias Jehu ft. Rmilh, that on Monday last he committed bigamy m that, being then married, he vent j through the form of marriage with. Rita Thorp. The accused cam., before Mr. i . V. Frazer, S.M.. on M. • ■ d;\y morning ,ad was remanded fcr a week, bail fixed at one surety cf £IOO n; ,o sureties of £SO each.