CHARGE OF BIGAMY. AN AUCKLAND WOMAN IN THE DOCK.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 351, 16 March 1889, Page 3

CHARGE OF BIGAMY. AN AUCKLAND WOMAN IN THE DOCK.

At the Water Police Court, Sydney, before Mr U. W. F. Addison, S.M., a respectablelooking woman named Harriet '.'oraton, appeared in answer to a charge of having committed bigamy. The information of Peter Corston, o* No. 169, Castlereagh-street, Sydney, Bet forth that on the 18th April, 1863, ab Auckland, New Zealand, one Haniet Reed did raatry the said informant, and thatthe said Harriet Corston, nee Reed, while she wad so married, did, on the 21st of July, 1886, at Sydney, marry William Green Bibble, the taiu Peter Corston being then alive. Mr •Tones appeared for the prosecution ; Mr W. R iberts, senr., for the defence. Detective Greave3 deposed that he arrested the accused on the Bth February ; she taid she would like to see Peter Corston ; when she saw him she said "He is very much alteied ;" later on she said, " If he is my husband he will have a cut on his breast." Witness subsequently examined Peter Corston and found that he had a cub on his br< ast ; she afterwards admitted that he was her husband. By Mr Roberts : Accused did not recognise Corston at first ; Coiston said when he was confronted by his wife, " It is me, sure enough ; " witness had heard that Corston had served time in Pv-ntndge Gaol. Peter Corston deposed that the information jusb read refened to the accused, who was his wife; lie was manied to her on the 38th April, 1863, ab St. Mat thow's Church, Auckland, by Rev. David Jones ; there were thiee witnesses to the marriage. They lived in Auckland for some time after that. He v\ as in business as a commission agent, an J his wife carried on the business of a milliner. Later on his affairs became somewhat involved, and they left Auckland and travelled to various carts of New Zealand. They sometimes lived together, and at other times they lemained apart, owing to his having to Feck employment. There were two children — a boy and a girl — as the issue of the marriage. [A Mrs Reynolds was here called into court, and was identified by the prosecutor as his daughter.] He left Auckland on >he 6th November, 18S4, and arrived in I Melbourne on the 20th of that month • he ! had not leturned to Auckland since that I date ; and the 6bh November, 1884, was the last time he f-aw his wife, although he had since corresponded with her. He i-e-ceived certain information in 1886, in consequence of which he took the present proceedings. The case is proceeding.