BIGAMOUS TAILOR
ELDERLY MAN DECEIVES, DIED ACCUSED REFUSED BAIT/ "MIGHT MARRY ANOTHER GIRL” • CPress Assocla43<i»i AUCKLAND, April 11. Bigamy was admitted in the Police Court by Frederick Earl Hope-Pear-©on, aged years, a tailor, before Sir K. F. Hunt; S.M. this morning. He was charged that he went through •' form of marriage on February 19, 1935, at the registrar’s office, Auckland, with a young woman, at which time 'his wife was living at Tauranga. - > A ■ The legal wifo gave evidence that she was married in 1897 at Rotorua. In 1931 her husband left her, going to Auckland. In March last he'Vroto asking if he could return, as he was fed lip with the starvation conditions in Auckland.'-She replied affirmatively hut heard nothing more -until this prosecution. / The registrar gave evidence that the girl was a minor, , and the consent of the mother was given two days before he performed, the ceremony. Mr Hunt ordered the suppression of the young woman's, name. He re. fused an application for hail made by the. accused’s counsel. “He might have another lapse and marry another girl”. I’m not g ojn g to give bail”, he said.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12527, 12 April 1935, Page 3
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