CHARGE OF BIGAMY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17321, 22 May 1918, Page 4

CHARGE OF BIGAMY

WOMAN COMMITTED FOB / SENTENCE.

(Per Ukited Peess Association.) AUCKLAND, May 21. Harvey Katharine Johnson, aged 36, ap> peared at the police court to-day on m charge of bigamy. Evidence was given that in Septemlx*, 1916, a retired farmer (Arthur ' Edwin Featherston) went througii a form of marriage with her in the registrar's office at Auckland. She gave the name \of Kate Kuvanagh, and stated that she waa 'single. Shortly after they separated, and Featherston got information that aooosed waa already married when she went through the < form of marriage with him. He had the marriage annulled. Interviewed by a constable, accused admitted that in 1906 she married a labourer named John Bjorin Johnson. After two years she left him, with his consent. She went to the Islands, and lost sight of Johnson, but sabsequently learned that he had gone to the war. She thought that after sho had been eight years away, and that he had gone to tho war 'without having mado any provision for her, she was free of him. Accused pleaded iruilty, and was com. Mitt-ed to tho Supreme Court for sentence.