BIGAMY CHARGE
SEAMAN PLEADS NOT GUILTY.
COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, October 20. Joseph James Groonotte, aged 35 years, a hairdresser and seaman, was committed for trial on a bigamy charge. On his own statement to the police, Groonotte stated that he had gone through two more forms of marriage while his legal wife was still alive. He pleaded not guilty “because my legal wife is dead.” Groonotte was charged that, on November 24, 1913, at Johannesburg, he did marry Fanny Thickborne, and while so married, did on February 9, 1927, at Palmerston North, marry Eva Hill, thereby committing bigamy. In his statement to the police, Groonotte stated that after his wife returned to South Africa from Wellington in 1924 he went through a form of marriage there on July 23, 1924 (before his marriage to Hill) with Lilly May Woodhouse, of Karori.
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Southland Times, Issue 21219, 21 October 1930, Page 4
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146BIGAMY CHARGE Southland Times, Issue 21219, 21 October 1930, Page 4
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