BIGAMY CHARGE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 64, 2 March 1929, Page 7

BIGAMY CHARGE

ACCUSED FOUND NOT GUILTY

Hamilton, March 1. A charge of bigamy was preferred at the Supreme Court this afternoon against a middle-aged woman, Anie Elizabeth Godfrey. According to the Crown Prosecutor, accused, whose maiden name was Annie Elizabeth Trueman, married Henry Godfrey at the office of the Registrar at Wellington in 1902. After five or six years she camo with her husband to Auckland, where she left him in 1922. In 1926 she went through a form of marriage at the office of the Registrar at Hamilton with William Leonard Hunt. In evidence, the prisoner admitted her marriage with Hunt, stating she believed her husband was dead at the time. She rend a notice of the death of He”iy Godfrey in the “Waikoto Times.” Tho Prosecutor; And did you not trouble to make any further inquiries about him ? Witness; I did not think it worth wl ile. The Crown Prosecutor arid that p ( search had been made of the files of (I <■> “Wiakato Timos." ami the allcgc I ....fL-ns had not hoon ti -u-od. jiiiy returned a verdict of not