THE COURTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 294, 7 December 1908, Page 2

THE COURTS.

ALLEGED BIGAMY". ' By -telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Saturday Night. At the l'oliee Court tfeday, Albert Ernest Trail appeared in answer to a charge of having committed bigamy on July 10, 1902, at Coromamlel. Eleanor •Kelly, a married woman, said that ' in -March, 1891), the accused was married to her sister. The latter was about J."> years of age at the time of her marriage, but she and lier husband separated some time after. Witness' sister was] still alive. Chief Detective Marsaci; I said that on November 27 Jie charged! ; the accused with tile present offence, I and he said: '• I thought there would be something of this." He went on to say that he did not deny liis first marriage, but did not call' his second alliance bigamous, for his wife bad been away from him for ten or eleven years before he married his second wife. lie was told she was dead two years ago.' Ethel E. Kenvin, the woman he mar-' ried the second time, said she had. heard his first wife was alive, but she could not believe it, thinking that if/ alive she would have made some enquiry about the children. Accused toid I witness that before lie married iiilis-j Kirwin, a solicitor told him it was all right. The accused was committed to the Supreme Court for trial. lie reserved his defence.