SAID SHE READ OF HUSBAND’S DEMISE.

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6849, 2 March 1929, Page 8

SAID SHE READ OF HUSBAND’S DEMISE.

FILES SEARCHED IN VAIN. WOMAN ACQUITTED OF BIGAMY CHARGE. Per Press Association. HAMILTON, Last Night. A charge of bigamy was preferred in tho Su’prome Court this afternoon against a middle-aged woman, Annie Elizabeth Godfrey. According to the Crown Prosecutor, accused, whose maiden name was Annie Elizabeth Trueman, married Henry Godfrey at tho ofiico of the Registrar, Wellington in 1902. _ After five or six years, she came with her husband to Auckland, where she left him in 1922. In 1926, she went through a form of marriage at the ofiico of the Registrar at Hamilton with William Leonard Hunt. , In evidence, prisoner admitted her marriage with Hunt, stating she believed her husband was dead at the time. She. read a notice of the death of one Henry Godfrey in the Waikato Times. , The Crown Prosecutor: And did you not troublo to make any further inquiries about him! —I did not think it •jvorth while. >;■ Tho Crown Prosecutor said a search had been made of tho files of the Waikato Times and the alleged notica had not been traced.

The jury returned a verdict of not guilty.