Masquerade of a Married Man

NZ Truth, Issue 1031, 29 August 1925, Page 6

Masquerade of a Married Man

Pararn6uf Posed as His Wife

But SliePWants a Bond for Baby's Support

.?*". ■■ , ; .. t ,' . . ' ■ ■---... "This man, sir, induced- /the complainant to deceive her mother by ,' saying they- were /married. ' , Such was a remark made, to Magistrate Poynton by Lawyer K. N. Moody at the Auckland Magistrate's, Court when Frank Herbert Brett appeared'in connection;' with, the birth oJ! an illegitimate child and provision for the maintenance of same.

The complainant was a young woman jpf 26, who said that she had lived with the accused for some' time. He had bought her a ring and m

duced .liter loi'tell people that she: was

married ='-. to; .accused, v While they stayed together he., had paid her board, £1 : a, 'week, but . he had not come, to light V\vi£h.> any support for the .^maintenance of^the issue .of the unsanctifled,' union. !— 'Brett had been going-. to : the Islands; tb -a- 'billet, and she agreecii ':>'■ to his doing ; so, 'but on second thoughts she liaa exercised the woman's.;, privilege? of changing her mind. She admitted.; that; Brett could dp better- in the Islands than he could here, but- she wished*\the; whole affair given legal status ere, -he left for oth,er clime'sj j In reply to*'-quest,ions 1 by. Mr. Me-' Liver. for . the accused,; the girl said

she was going to go away with Brett to the Islands, but her motticr would not let her '.go when she knew that the pair ha!d not been married. The S.M.: Is there anything, to prevent the parties from being married? Mr. Moody: Yesi sir. His trouble is that he has had too many dealings with "women. There is a bond against him m .respect of another woman, and he ' has also a wife. If he gets to the Islands he is handy for Honolulu, 'Fiji, Sydney and 'Frisco,. - He should be made to find a bond. The S.M. adjudged the accused the putative father of the complainant's child, and ordered him to pay the sum of 12s 6d weekly, also to find a bond for £50 within seven days, besides forking out witness's expenses 10s and solicitor's fee £2 2s.