WOMAN ADMITS BIGAMY.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 December 1918, Page 5

WOMAN ADMITS BIGAMY.

BEE 'TWO HUSBANDS MET. A case of bigamy was heard beforL Mr. J. E. Wilson,JS.M., at Auckland last week, the accused" "Being Florence Fran- ' ces Akehurst Hull (28., wBo appeared ; with an infant in amis- The evidence was to tho effect that accused. was carried seven years ago in Christchurcli to W. H. Hull, a ship's steward, giving her maiden name as Florence Neal, and .** her age as 2:? years. She subsequently ' came to Auckland, and -was known to some of her acquaintances as Mrs. Hullj but in the meantime she met a young man named Francis H. Herring, to whom She posed as a single woman named Florence Hayes, and with whom she kept coutpany Eventually, in January of last' ynx, she wenfTErough the form of marriage with Herring at St. Matthew's Church, nerring was then a young man of 21 years, and accused gave her age as £1 years, and her maiden name as Frances Valeria do Mere Hayes. At hw first' marriago die gave Kcr bifrhplaee aa Wftimate, but on the second occasion: she declared that she had Wen born at sea .' in the English Channel. Some time this year, Herring, a fireman, met Hull, then ■, a steward on a coastal in con.- - "; sojuenco of something Hull eaid he in- -I quired of his wife about the matter, when she admitted that she was married .' ■, to Hull, and had committed Tjsamy. In v October last, when accused had pine *> bad; to live with Unit, in Wellißgtw she made a statement to Dcteeiive '.. Mason admitting the ibigamdiis toa?riage. ' •/ Accused pleaded"'"Guilty,*' »M vo • committed* to tho" Supreme l fiwrt '.•* 3 sentence, being allowed Vail "is' ••?.f jj surety of 'St/0- ~ * : •jx.su".' '"' : ' l