FORM OF MARRIAGE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22627, 15 January 1937, Page 11

FORM OF MARRIAGE

CHARGE AT DARGAVILLE COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE [by telegraph —own correspondent] DARGAVILLE, Thursday A charge of bigamy and two charges of breaking and entering were preferred against Henry Sterling, alias Darrell Hope Barnaby, bootmaker, aged 32, in the Dargaville Police Court yesterday, before Messrs. P. A. Jones and G. H. Wansbone, J.P.'s. The charges were that accused, being already married, went through a form of marriage with another woman in Dargaville in November, 1936; that he broke into a house at Maulea Gorge, West Coast, and stole bedding, clothing and household effects valued at £5 13s, the property of "William Hyland; and that he broke into another house at the same place and stole miscellaneous articles valued at 14s, the property of Charles Frederick Shaw.

Accused pleaded guilty to the three charges. Sergeant F. said he arrested accused at Arapohue, where he was living with a young woman he had bigamously niarried. Hie stolen articles were found in the house. Bosnia Jean Baruabv said she was the wife of accused. She married him at Cambridge on April 5, 1933, and they lived together for a month, when accused was arrested. She then discovered that he had been in trouble with the police and she decided not to live with him. She had seen him on several occasions, the last being in November, 1935, when she refused his request to go back and live w:th him. A young woman :hen gave evidence that she married licensed at Dargaville on November 3, 1936. He had not told her he had a wife in Auckland. In the marriage licence he described himself as a bachelor. Another witness said she was a sister of the previous witness and was present at the marriage of her sister to accused under the name of Henry Sterling.

Accused was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.