A Bigamistic Blacksmith.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4267, 4 September 1882, Page 3

A Bigamistic Blacksmith.

A fine-built man, a blacksmith by trade, Darned William John Lyttle, vas charged with bigamy at the Police Court, Auck> land, on Saturday morning, and remanded. Lyttle was married to his first wife at Belfast in 1876, and with her emigrated to New Zealand, and resided for a considerable time at Taranaki. He left in quest of employment, and was supposed to hare been lost in the wreck of the ill»fated Tararua. His wife believing that such was the case, pat on the widow's weeds, and in due time, being apparently a comely widow, accepted the hand and heart of a man named Baker, a settler, and was married to him, little dreaming , that Lyttle was alive. Lyttle becoming aware of the fact that his Belfast wife had found another husband, thought, like Enoch Arden, that he would not interfere with the conjugal happiness of. Baker and his wife, but, unlike the hero of Tennyson's poem, be objected to a life of single blessedness, and went to Wanganui, and made lore to. a young woman known as Polly. Willows, whose friends lire at Newton.; Folly induced her husband to take her and her baby to Auckland, . where her friends resided,.and where he .",. wonloVfind work. The facts, however, ' l^came known in Wanganui, and a facetious paragraph appearing in the local journal, led to the arrest of Lyttle yesterday afternoon. on a charge of bigamy. '__ i ____ L _ L ___