BIGAMY CHARGE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19802, 18 May 1934, Page 6

BIGAMY CHARGE

ACCUSED COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, May 17. “This man apparently has had adventures with three different women,” said the Magistrate, Mr F. K. Hunt, in the Police Court to-day, in committing Frederick Ferguson Bishop, aged 36, an aircraftsman, employed at the Hobsonville air base, to the Supreme Court for trial on a bigamy charge. Evidence was given that accused was married in England in 1919 after service in the Air Force. It was alleged in a statement by his wife in England that he had gone off with another woman. Subsequently, she heard that the other woman had been left stranded in Scotland with twins, and in 1930 she received a letter from a second woman in Australia, who said that she had paid Bishop’s fare to Melbourne and had spent £6OO on him, but he had left her with their baby boy and had gone to New Zealand with another woman, who had money. Accused, in a statement, said he had not seen or heard of his wife for 10 years 7>efore he went through a form of marriage with a woman in Auckland. He took it for granted that his wife was dead.