A CHARGE OF BIGAMY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9635, 6 October 1894, Page 2 (Supplement)

A CHARGE OF BIGAMY.

A HARD CASE.

Jane Hannah Creighton, aged 36, a wellfavoured woman, was charged on remand, at Southwark Police Court, with feloniously intermarrying with Isaac Hall, her husband, Robert Creighton, being then and now alive. Evidence was given that the first marriage took place at St. Philip's Church, Kensington Road. Shortly after that the two quarrelled, and the husband was sentenced to three months' hard labour for assaulting his wife. She left him in consequence, and went to Newcastle-on-Tyne, where she resided for some time. About a year after she returned to Loudon, and resumed an acquaintance with Hall, and lived with him as his wife up to the time of her arrest. Last year Hall, assuming that Creighton was dead, offered her marriage, which she accepted, and they went to Southampton, where they were married at Jesus Chapel by banns on December 26. Returning to London the prisoner quarrelled with her sister, and summoned her at that court for assault, with the result that her sister gave information to the polico which led to the prisoner's arrest on the present charge. On her arrest by Detective-Sergeant Croston, M division, the prisoner said, "My husband had three months' for knocking me about, and I had not seen him for eleven years." At the station, when charged, she told her first husband that she had not seen him for so long that she would not have known him had she met him in the streets, and added, ''I would not give up my present old man for fourteen like you." Additional evidence was given, and certificates of both marriages having been put in, Mr. Fenwick committed the prisoner for trial at the Central Criminal Police Court, and agreed to accept the second husband's bail for her appearance in the sum of £40.