WADDING MORN SURPRISE

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3666, 30 October 1912, Page 9

WADDING MORN SURPRISE

BRIDE RECEIVES LETTER SUPPOSED TO BE FROM H CHI'AND’S FIRST WIFE.

On a charge of bigamy Alfred J. Xuttail, a member of the Anglesey Royal Engineers Special Reserve, and a native of Holywell, was at Bangor Police Court committed for trial at the Carnarvonshire Assizes. Mr S. R. Dew (prosecuting) said defendant married An n*E Hen Goodman Williams, Beaumaris, at Bangor Registry Office last October, his first wife, whom lie married in St Peter’s Church, Liverpool, being then alive. After his first marriage ho went to reside at Holywell, and joined the Anglesey Engineers, and while up for training at Beaumaris he met Ann Ellen Goodman Williams, to whom he represented himself as single. Later, owing to her condition, she pressed him to marry her. and ho did so. Ann Ellen Goodman Williams, Beaumaris, who gave her age as eighteen, said that when accused, was training with the Engineers she went out walking with him, and he represented that ho was single. She knew him first of all as Nuttall, but the .was married under the name of Paxton. On the morning after the marriage she received a letter which she understood came from accused's first wife. Nuttall reamed the letter and said someone had sent- it for spite. Then ho went away and she had not -seen him since. Nuttall: She lias said a lot of untruths. Didn’t you receive a letter from Garston on the morning of your wedding? No. Did you not receive- a letter from a Mrs Williams putting you on your guard against marrying a maried man? No, I received a letter from your wife afterwards. Nuttall: She knew nothing about the affair. Witness: You denied you were married. Nuttall: Yes, I denied that. Accused was sent for trial and bail was allowed.