SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 16049, 6 February 1918, Page 6

SUPREME COURT.

Auckland session. per press association. , ' AUCKLAND, Feb. 5. At the Supremo Court, Arthur Henry Burns was charged with bigamy. Accused married a Maori in 1912, but subsenuentlv was separated from her. Ho later met a European girl, : whom he married in November, 1917, saying he believed his first wife was dead, infor- ! mation to this effect having been given him by Maoris with whom she had been living. Accused, giving evidence, said he firmly believed his first wife was dead. A verdict of guilty was returned. The Judge ordered him to come up for sen-‘ tenc© when called upon, on conditionthat he took steps to annul the first marriage and did the right thing hy marrying the girl to whom he had done such grievohs, wrong.