BIGAMY ALLEGED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 25, 31 January 1938, Page 5

BIGAMY ALLEGED.

CHARGE WITHDRAWN.

**WIFE" WAS ONLY FIFTEEN.

I I FIRST MARRIAGE VOID. , (Special.—By Air Mail.) I LOXDOX, January 7. Police withdrew a charge of bigamy against a Hayem, Middlesex, man : because They had discoxered that hi*; | first "wife"' was only 15 when he mar-: j ried her. L nder the Age of Marriage Act thai wedding was xoid. He i.-, therefore. ' legally married to the woman he ua- ; charged with bigamously marrying. j William Hunt, the husband, now 24.1 »a*i discharged when he appeared atj ( L xbridge to face the charge. j When, in l'.KJii. lie went through the'? marriage ceremony with Elizabeth!, Leach at Maiylcbone register office, the girl gave her age wrongly as 17. j He had two children by her. The j first died; the second, a boy, is now l living with him. " j in August lant year he married Miss Sarah Taylor, aged 26, at Braunton.j Xortliante, and for more than three!, years the two wives have been living , within live miles of each other. ° Mrs. Elizabeth Hunt, who is now Miss ' Leach maid: "I don't know what will happen now. I understand, from the police, that no proceedings will be taken against ine a*; the case is so old." Mr. Hunt, at his home in Hayes, talked of the first "lightning romance which we both lived to regret.". And Mrs. Hunt's comment was this: "I had waited for him all my life and had always intended to marry him. I did not know he was already 'married.'"