Acquitted on Bigamy Charge
MAN’S FIRST MARRIAGE INVALID. Per Press Association. BLENHEIM, Last Night. In the Supreme Court Charles Galloway, charged with bigamy, was acquitted. Evidence was adduced that ■in April last accused went through a form of marriage at Wellington with a widow named Harriett Stevens. In 1922 at Blenheim he had married a supposed widow named Elizabeth Robson. The evidence showed that Robson, the husband of accused’s first wife, went to the war and had never been heard of since, but she thought she recognised him in a newspaper reproduction of a photo of a soldier named Robinson who was killed at the front.
The defence argued that there was no evidence to show that Robson was dead and, therefore, accused’s first marriage was invalid and the second marriage was not bigamy. The jury acquitted accused.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 273, 21 November 1934, Page 7
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