REMARKABLE BICAMY CASE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1110, 10 August 1883, Page 3

REMARKABLE BICAMY CASE.

Som- particulars 'of a remarkable , c se ot bigamy are given by tin* Mel- ; bourne lle.raid of the 12th ult It 1 save ; —The case of the man 'Gordon, ‘ convicted of bigamv some time since will be fresh in the recollection of most of oily ■readers. For those unacquainted with the case it may be sufficient to say that the hv.ni was claimed, by a woman representing herself as fiis wifeiin Melbourne, after a desertion of iHoi'.e titan 20 years. In jtihe-meantime Gordon'had married in Melbourne, had si numerous family, send was leadings most exwnpla-y life, having 1 be -jj for. years gardener at the Melbourne I : yihg-m-{Bo,spital. .After prolonged proceedings, first on the complaint ot the first wife in the Police Court for maintenance, and subsequently in the Central Criminal Court on the prosecution by the Crown for bigamy, Gordon was convicted, and sentenced to 12 mouths’ imprisonment. In justice to Gordon it must 'be'.admitted that throughout he denied .that he was tiie man yimpson he was charged with being, ami in-fact this was his defence. However, he was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment, and although efforts have since been made to obtain bis release In- was not di-diagetl until yesterday, after sewing nine months. Immediately on his discharge he was arrested oh-a-Warrant issued it- I'aylesf i-il, ' where the first wife I-sides, charging him with deserting hei-whil- hj : was in prison. This was lud enough, but now came to the wre died man f.r the first time the dreadful intelligence that the second wife, his fab htill pai-tiiei- for nearly - twenty years and the niother of ids c ildrou (the first ha - none), had died ’ the night I efore ot a broken heart. ! These were the actual words of his 3 eldest son, a line youth of some sixteen ' or seventeen years, when he met his b father in the clerk’s ollice'iii the city 1 court, where Gordon hid first, to be ; taken to be bailed. The scene between t the boy and his father and some of the 8 younger children at the court was r most harrowing, and strong men had r to tain aside to conceal their tears ”