Troubles of a Much-Married Man.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4248, 12 August 1882, Page 2

Troubles of a Much-Married Man.

The charge of bigamy against Samuel Joy was called;on*at Ihe Police Court, Auckland, yesterday, but was further remanded till Monday next. Enquiries have revealed suspicions of at least four marriages, and it is feared that there may be others. The police are prepared to prove three, but one of the wires is said to have died a considerable time ago. It is alleged that in 1858 he was married to a young half-caste girl named Caroline Kandall, a native of the village of Taupiri, which is situated on the present Waikato line. They spent a blissful honeymoon, extending over a fortnight, in visiting their friends in the surrounding country, and at the end of that time Mrs Caroline Joy suddenly eloped to the King Country with a handsome young aboriginal native named Hari Kupai, of whom she had become enamoured. Keport says the guilty pair have since resided within Tawhiao's territory, and hare now a large family. He fell a victim to the seductive charms of a young Maori woman at Taupiri and it is not altogether impossible that the fact that she was possessed of a considerable quantity of land had some weight with him in the resolve to make this "thing of beauty" a "Joy for ever." They are said to have been married, and to hare lived together for a number of years until her death, which took place not a very long time ago. It is alleged that he advertised for a wife; and that the notice caught the watchful eye of Marion Prangle, a recent arrival in the colony, who came out here in the ship Lady Jocelyn, with the Vesey Stewart special settlers. This lady responded, and a meeting was arranged in town. This lady does not appear to hare been prepossessed by the appearance of the elderly beau, and maintained a coy and maidenly reserve. Joy, however, was " struck," and notwithstanding that the applicant fought shy of him, he remembered the old adage, " Faint heart never won fair lady," and persevered so assiduously in his attentions that he eventually won the object of bis affections. They were married in the Eegistry Office on January 9th, 1882, and soon afterwards went to live at Taupiri. The neighbours, with characteristic feeling, immediately informed Mrs Joy that she was not exactly Mrs Joy, and the. good lady, finding how matters stood, left the man whom she ■ had promised to take for better or worse; and coming down to Auckland, instituted the present proceedings. According to law,- it devolves upon the prosecution- to shew that he was aware of his fiist wife being alive in the seven years prior to last January before a conviction can be secured.

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