Admits He Was Double Bigamist'
AUCKLAND, Thu. (P.A.)— Three women were witnesses in the Police Court today when Russell Godfrey Patcbett, 45. printer, admitted that he was a double bigamist.
The magistrate (Mr J. Morling) ordered that the names of two women be not published. Patchett’s real wife said she married him at Nelson in June, 1941, and they had two children.
The second “wife” said that, while living in Auckland early in 1947, she corresponded as a pen friend with accused.
At his request she went to Wellington and then to Christchurch, where they went through a form of marriage in June. A week later accused said he was already married and they parted. The third “wife,” aged 24, said she kept company with accused, whom she knew as Norman James Scott, and went through a form of marriage in an Auckland Methodist Church last May.
She took it for granted that he was a single man. Pleading guilty to both charges of bigamy, Patchett was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence,• He .did not-tsaek bai&
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Northern Advocate, 21 July 1949, Page 5
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