CHARGE OF BIGAMY.
VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY. [Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Feb. 11. At the Supreme Court this afternoon, Albert Ernest Trail was tried ou a charge of having, at Coromandel, on July 16, 1903, gone through the marriage ceremony with a young woman, his wife, Elizabeth Catherine, whom he married at Auckland on March 4th. 1890, being then alive. The circumstances were that Traill, alter living with his first wife for some time after their marriage, separated from her, and in July, _390-5. married the second woman. The-pri-soner when first charged admitted that he 'knew the first wife was alive just before he married the second one, but he had not seen her for 10 or 31. years, and lrad been told that she was dead. He also told the young woman he married that lie was not certain whether liis first wife was alive or not . Chief Detective Marsack stated that when charged the prisoner remarked; 4, 1 was suspecting something like this, hut 1 don’t call it bigamy, as 1 bad not semi my first wife for 10 or 11 years when I married the second. After an hour's retirement the jury returned a verdict of .not guilty.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2424, 12 February 1909, Page 6
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200CHARGE OF BIGAMY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2424, 12 February 1909, Page 6
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