TWICE MARRIED
CHARGE OF BIGAMY
CARTER TO BE SENTENCED
(By Telegraph.—Press' Association.)
AUCKLAND, 18th July.
Charles William Kitson, aged 48, a carter, was committed for sentence today on a charge of bigamy. He married In England in 1905 and went through a form of marriage in Auckland in 1924 with a woman who believed herself to be his wife till March of this year.
In evidence to-day she. said that there were three children and .. that a fourth was expected.1 He had always been good to/her and'the children.;
A detective said thai' the accused was much respected'and had never; before been in trouble. He recently received a letter from his' wife"in which she said she would be sorry if. he was prosecuted for bigamy. ' . . ' ' ' : The accused said, that-after coming to -New Zealand he wrote. asking his wife to join him, but'he had not heard from her for about, three-years before the' second marriage., ,l J; '
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 16, 19 July 1932, Page 12
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