CHARGE OF BIGAMY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2856, 9 December 1908, Page 25

CHARGE OF BIGAMY.

ACCUSED COMMITTED FOE TRIAL. AUCKLAND, December 5. At the Police Court to-day Albert Ernest Trail appeared in answer to a charge of Having committed bigamy on July 16, 1902, at Coromandel. Eleanor Kelly, a married woman, ,said that in March, 1890, the accused was married to her sister. The latter was about 15 years of age at the time, bub she and her husband separated some time after. Witness's sister was still alive. Chief Detective Marsack said that on November 27 lie chaiged the accused with the present offence, and he said Ct I thought there would be something of this. He went on to say that he did not deny the fh'st marriage, but did not call his second alliance bigamous, for his first wife had been away from him for 10 or 11 years before he married his second wife, and before the second ceremony he was told ehe was dead two years before. Ethel E, Kerwin, the woman whom accused married the second time, said she had heard that hie first wife was alive, but fihe could not believe it, thinking that, if alive, she would have made some inquiry about the children. Accused told witness that before he married Miss Kerwin a solicitor told him that it was all right. The accused was committed to the Supreme Court for trial. He reserved hifi defence.