BIGAMY ADMITTED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22545, 12 April 1935, Page 10

BIGAMY ADMITTED

APPLICATION FOR BAIL REFUSED "MIGHT MARRY ANOTHER GIRL.” (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, April 11. Bigamy was admitted in the Police Court by Frederick Earl Hope-Pearson, aged 64, a tailor. He was charged before Mr F. K. Hunt this morning that he went through the form of marriage in February, 1935, at the registrars office, Auckland, with a young woman, at winch time his wife was living at Tauranga. His legal wife deposed that they were married in 1897 at Rotorua. In 1931 her husband left her, going to Auckland. In March last he wrote asking if he could return as he was fed up of starvation conditions in Auckland. She replied affirmatively, but heard nothing more until this prosecution. The registrar gave evidence that the girl was a minor, and the consent of the mother was given two days before he performed the marriage. . Mr Hunt ordered the suppression ot the young woman’s name and refused an application for bail made by the accused a «He ’ might have another lapse and marry another girl. I'm not going to give bail.”