MARITAL ADVENTURES

Evening Star, Issue 21722, 17 May 1934, Page 12

MARITAL ADVENTURES

BIGAMY CHARGE AGAINST AIRCRAFTSMAN [Pm United Press Association.] . AUCKLAND, May 17. “ This. man apparently had adventures with three different women,” said the magistrate (Mr Hunt), in committing Frederick Ferguson Bishop, aged .thirty-six, an aircraftsman, employed at Hobsonville air base, to the Supreme Court for trial on a charge of bigamy. Evidence was given that accused was married in England in 1919 after service in the Air Force. It was alleged in a statement by his wife in England that he had gone off with another woman. Subsequently she heard that the other woman had been left stranded in Scotland with twins, and in 1930 she received a letter from a second woman in Australia, who said she bad paid Bishop’s fare to Melbourne, and had spent £6OO on him, but he had left her with their baby boy, and gone to New Zealand with another woman who had money. Accused, in a statement, said he had not seen or hoard of his wife for ten years before he went through the form of marriage with the woman in Auckland. He took it for granted that his wife was dead.