SENTENCED FOR BIGAMY
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 1. A sentence of 12 mouths’ imprisonment, with hard labour, was imposed by Mr Justice Smith in the Supremo Court to-day on Wallace Siting, aged 41, whose action in going through the fvnn of marriage with a woman on the same day as his wife asked him to return to her was described by His Honour as a deliberate and wilful flouting of the marriage laws. The prisoner had pleaded guilty at Palmerston North yesterday.
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Evening Star, Issue 24290, 3 September 1942, Page 8
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81SENTENCED FOR BIGAMY Evening Star, Issue 24290, 3 September 1942, Page 8
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