MUCH-MARRIED MAN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 179, 28 January 1914, Page 5

MUCH-MARRIED MAN.

NOVEL DEFENCE IN M AIX TEN ANCEt «M CASE. )|H By Telegraph.—Presi Association. ,j||H Auckland, Last Night. There were unusual circumstancen Iwi39 a case in the Police Court, in whitngH Ellen Geovgina Pcrrin applied tor, order for maintenance against WillinKjlM Perrin. The defence raised the that defendant's first wifo wag when he went through the form of man||H riage with complainant at llawera. HfljH then described himself as a widowaffijjM and stated to his second wife that UmH first wife liad not been heard of some years, and he believed her dead. Three years later, in November, 188S, '7|B the first wife appeared'ln Nap'ef. Pefr' ,9 rin gave her £BO, and in ronsideratiwTdfl sire left New Zealand. In 1003 P«r{i|ij9| quarrelled v-ith complainant, iqS had not since lived together. ThupVjgjH were three children of the v.nion, ageß '.?fl ranging from 14 to 23 years. In Chriit-. 'H church recently, Pcrrin produced th 6 JH certificate of his first Aprfl, Jjfl Mr Cut ten, S.M., said he must diimitft JI the application for maintenance, tafcaH the nature of the defence was such tbatllS lie could not allow costs to the defat" jB