WOMEN BIGAMISTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21112, 4 June 1943, Page 4

WOMEN BIGAMISTS

THREE FOR. SENTENCE SECOND. OFFENCE BY ONE (P.A.) AUCKLAND, June 3. Three women came before Mr. Justice Fair in the- Supreme Court to-day for sentence for admitted offen-ces of bigamy. Elsie McNair, aged 41, was stated by counsel to have been under the influence of liquor -when the -offence occurred and the man concerned also was affected by drink at the time. Her legal marriage was now dissolved and she was free to marry. - In- imposing a sentence of three months’ imprisonment, His Honour said that the, prisoner had- been sentenced last December in Wellington for a previous- offence and; she had just come out of prison when the latest offence was- committed. Hazel Mary Mann; aged- 41, who had admitted obtaining--credit by fraud, theft, false-- pretences, -and forgery, in addition to bigamy,-was stated by counsel to have committed 'most ol her offences’when under the influence of morphia, having contracted the drug habit when she was'a nurse, but she -had almost cured herself ’of the habit. The woman was released on probation for three years and .ordered to pay £3s'restitution- in instalments in connection J With ' obtaining a fur coat by false-pretences. --A Matehiiirua Te Mana. aged 24, «. Maori woman, who admitted bigamy with a young Maori at Dargaville, was placed on probation for three-years. His Honour said that the husband, who was overseas, was understood- to be obtaining a divorce. 1