BIGAMY BY HUSBAND AND WIFE.
John Topbam, fifty-two, laborer, and Mary Ann Tophara, thirty-four, his wife, pleaded guilty at Yoik Assizes ncefitly to having committed bigamy, i t appeared that they had agreed between themselves to allow each other to many, and the husband had accordingly married Martha Tomlinson at Leeds on the ptji April, 1870, and the wife had married Benjamin S. Thackray at Leeds in. April, 1867, and William Spence at Leeds on the 21st January, 1876. The Judge said the circumstances of the case were peculiar. The prisoners had apparently assumed that by the agreement they could lawfully contract matrimony, and haddteetuied into the supposition that there was no very great delinquency in what they Wre doing. No such agreement’ could be of any earthly use, and it was that it should be so. Under the circumstances, however, he was . able’td pass a mitigated sentence. The prisoners , were sentenced to two months’ imprisonment.
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Evening Star, Issue 4145, 9 June 1876, Page 3
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156BIGAMY BY HUSBAND AND WIFE. Evening Star, Issue 4145, 9 June 1876, Page 3
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