PAINFUL CASE OF BIGAMY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2242, 20 November 1886, Page 3

PAINFUL CASE OF BIGAMY.

Joseph Gipson, 2(5 described as a carpenter, of 49, Tolty-street, Old Ford, was charged at the Stratford sessions, on October (sth, on a warrant, with feloniously marrying Alice Thain at Walthamstow, his wife being then and now alive.— Henry Charles Barnard, of 11, Sebnght-street, Hackneyroad, a decorator, .said that he knew the prisoner, and on Easter Monday, 1882, he was present at St. Luke's Church. Chatham-place, Homerton, in the parish of South Hackney, when the prisoner wa<» married to Mary Parkes. The banns had been published in the usual way, and witness gave the bride away. He had known the prisoner four or five years.— Henry Walter Thain, a relieving officer of the West Ham union, of Shemhall street, Walthamstow, the father of the second wife (who it was stated was now detained in a lunatic asylum as a result of the discovery that the prisoner was not her lawful husband), said that the prisoner had been introduced to his daughter two year-* ago. He produced the certificate of Ihp marriage of the prisoner to Maria Parkes, which he obtained from the vicar of St Luke's, Homerton. All he knew of thf* second marriage was that the parties left his house to be married in St. Peter's Church on the Forest ; but he was not present at the marriage. His daughter wa - now in a lunatic asylum as a result of thr marriage, which took place on September 7, 1885.