QUESTION OF IDENTITY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18663, 20 March 1924, Page 5

QUESTION OF IDENTITY.

UNUSUAL MAINTENANCE CASE

"20 YEARS OF LIFE & BLANK"-

" This is the man who was before the Court last week and said he was not the husband. We have sent to Dunedin and obtained the marriage certificate which shows that he is the woman's husband," said Chief Detective' Cumminfcs in the Police ~ Court yesterday, i when Oswald Be'nn Kennedy, aged 30 (Mi. Cahill), appeared on remand on a charge of having failed to provide his wife with adequate maintenance. Mr. J. W. • Poynton. 6.M., and Messrs. E. Leydon and W. J. Potter, J.P.'s; were on the Bench. .v ■ < The chief detective asked that : accused be remanded to appear at Dunedin next

Wednesday. '"■'He 'duties that he* is identical with the bridegroom," said Mr. Cahill, wh<i | added that accused suffered from loss oi memory, the - first .20 -years of - his life J being a blank. The persons ' who oould [identify him were in Dunedin, and it would be proved there whether or not he ! was the man referred Ito in the marriage certificate. ; Bail had been fixed at £100 last week. Yesterday the chief detective asked that the amount -be fixed at* £200. Accused had been arrested on a warrant that was two years old. . , • Accused- was accordingly - remanded to appear at. Dunedin. bail being fixed at £200/..' w: