CHARGE OF BIGAMY.
FEMALE ACCUSED ACQUITTED. HAMILTON, March 1.
A charge of bigamy was preferred in the Supreme Court this afternoon against a middle-aged woman, Annie Elizabeth Godfrey. According to the Crown Prosecutor the accused, whose maiden name was Annie Elizabeth Trueman, married Henry Godfrey at the office of the registrar in Wellington in 1902. After five or six years she came with her husband to Auckland, where she left him in 1922. In 1926 she went through the form of marriage at the office of the registrar at Hamilton with William Leonard Hunt. In evidence the accused admitted her marriage with Hunt, stating that she believed her husband to be dead at the time. She had read in the Waikato Times a notice of the death of one Henry Godfrey.
The Crown Prospector: Did you not trouble to make any further inquiries about him?
Witness: I Hid not think it worth while.
The Crown Prosecutor said a search had been made of the files of the Waikato Times, and the alleged notice had not been traced.
The jury returned a verdict of not -guilty. ,
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Otago Witness, Issue 3912, 5 March 1929, Page 66
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