MAN TALKS IN SLEEP.

Otago Witness, Issue 3768, 1 June 1926, Page 18

MAN TALKS IN SLEEP.

OVER HEARD BY V T IFE

PREVIOUS MARRIAGE REVEALED. WELLINGTON, May 27. The story of a husband who talked too much in his sleep and let his wife into the secret that lie had another wife in Australia was told during the hearing of a bigamy case against Leslie Knott, an engineer, aged Si years, who pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence. His wife, Dalla Burusso, always had the idea that he haa another wife somewhere, and one n.ght in . hir sleep he said something about being frigntened of the police, and called upon his real wife. He then left xlurusso. She said that when she first met Knott he was in a uniform with gold braid, and told her he was a doctor, but he war only a steward on a ship. She was married in 1921, and he had hardly ever kept her since. Accused’s own statement to the pblice was that his first wife died in 1919, and next year he married a girl of 18 vears against his will. A fortnight after the wedding he ran awa to sea. In December, 1920, he met Jurusso in Wellington and married her in 1921. He was ratified that his wife was alive then, and is now. He never wanted to marry Burusso. He regretted the position, d would be thankful to have the matter cleared up. Bail was allowed in two sureties of £SO.