ALLEGED BIGAMY.
INTERESTING AUCKLAND CASE. Press Association Telegram. AUCKLAND, May 21. Harvey Katherine Johnson, aged 36, appeared at the Police Court today on a charge of bigamy. Evidence was given that in September, 1916, a retired farmer named Arthur Edwin Featherstone went through the form of marriage with her in the Registrar's Office at Auckland. She gave the Ppiairie of Kate Ivavanagh and stated' that she was single. Shortly after they separated, and Featherstone got information that accused was already married when she went through the form of marriage with- him and he had the marriage annulled. Interviewed by a constable, accused admitted that in 1906 'she married a laborer named. John Bjorin - Johnson. After two years, she left him with his consent. She went to the Islands and, lost sight of Johnson, but subsequently learned he had gone to the war. She thought that after she had been eight years away 'and that he had gone to'the war without having made provision for her she was free of him. , Accused pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. J*
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4875, 22 May 1918, Page 2
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183ALLEGED BIGAMY. Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4875, 22 May 1918, Page 2
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