NOT GUILTY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 79, 2 March 1929, Page 8

NOT GUILTY.

BIGAMY CHARGE FAILS. Per Press Association. HAMILTON, March 1. A charge of bigamy was preferred in the Supreme Court this afternoon aerainst a middle-aged woman, Annie Elixabeth Godfrey. According to the Crown Prosecutor, accused, whose maiden name was Annie Elizabeth Trueman, married Henry Godfrey at th© office of the registrar in Wellington in 1902. After five or six years she went with her husband to Auckland, where she left him in 1922. In 1926 she went through a form of marriage at the office of tho registrar in Hamilton with William Leonard Hunt. In evidence prisoner admitted her marriage with Hunt, stating that she believed her husband to bo dead at the time. She read the notice of the death of Henry Godfrey in the Waikato Times. The Crown Prosecutor: And did you not trouble to make any further inquiries about him? —I did not think it worth while. The Crown Prosecutor said a search had been made, of the files of the Waikato Times and the alleged notice had not been traced. The jury returned a verdict of not' guilty.