AUTHOR CHARGED WITH BIGAMY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15292, 3 May 1913, Page 2 (Supplement)

AUTHOR CHARGED WITH BIGAMY.

"LOVE BEYOND WORI>S." Gkakles Gbaxville, author ana' , UD " lisher, was charged on .remand .at -jßow Street recently with bigamy and wrcNPg,'rtl conversion of money. • \. Mrs. Elizabeth Parker, whom, it is al- \ Hped, the prisoner bigumously married, was cross-examined. ; She denied that she hacl sent prisoner a message by her adopted daughter -that if ho did not come to her she would commit suicide. She denied that she .was so infatuated with prisoner that on November 15, 1905, she supplied him with .whisky, and soda, and then when lie was "muddled" had him placed in a taxi-cab, drove to the registrar, and was ; married. She .admitted that after the wedding they together went to the Criterion, had , a bottle of champagne, and drove home .to her ; residence, but denied '. that prisoner then fell asleep. Witness was married , again on •■ September 8, 1906. I : She had previously been married in 1903, and her first husband ,died. Deep and Tender Love Witness admitted that she wrote to prisoner'in July. r 1909, >. beginning her letter, "Dear Mr. James" (the name in which he .married her), saying, "I wish bo much to hear from your own lips, and you &»m -mine, that all the past is for-,: gotten." expressing her "deep and tender : love" Sot him, and asking him to come and see- her. I/be had also expressed, in another letter to a solicitor, her love for prisoner "beyond words,' and a desire to ; help him if he -were still engaged in the teaching profession. This was after she was married to her present husband. She said . she gave prisoner £25 to help in the 'registration of a company, which she believed would be for their .mutual benefit.. It wan after prisoner had proposed to her. Mr. Abingor: 'When did he propose?— I cannot say. / ,- v . But you have been married three times. : Surely you : remember the date on which the second proposal was made? may have been a fortnight after T: first '; knew; him. .■".'-" ' Prisoner here said he felt very unwell, and asked that : the case might be further adjourned. The magistrate declined to hear Mr. Abinger oh the question of bail, and adjourned the case.