A green sportsman, after a fruitless tramp, met a boy with tears in his eyes, and said : “I say, youngster, is there anything to, shoot aronud here f* The boy answered : “ Nothin’ just ’bout here, but there’s the schoolmaster over t’other side the hill. I wish you’d shoot him.”
~;An unusual case was tried at the Sydney criminal session recently, August liustan Jobanson being charged with being an accessory to bigamy, he having on October 26, 1883, married Ellen Lowrey, her husband, Peter Lowrey, being then alive. Evidence was given in proof of both marriages, and also of the fact that the prisoner knew that Ellen Lowrey was already a married woman at the time that he married her. It was further deposed that the accused, after Jiving with the woman for a time, turned her out. and actually obtained a warrant against her for bigamy. The pi isonor was sentenced to four years' Jitnal servitude.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 1288, 5 November 1886, Page 3
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