A VILE CONSPIRACY

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1511, 20 July 1905, Page 2

A VILE CONSPIRACY

SERIOU3 CHARGE AGAINST A CONSTABLE. A DANGEROUS CRIMINAL.

By. telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright Received 9.55 p.m., July 19. Sydney, July 19. A remarkable case was investigated at tbe Police Court, Conetublo Baker being charged with alleged criminal assault on his step-daughter. Baker, a couple of days ago, sought to have a maintenance order secured by bis wife varied on the ground that tbe woman was not his wife at the time the order was granted. A charge of bigamy having been preferred against her, James, a confectioner resiling at Waverley, New Zealand, identified her as his wife, whom he married in Wellington. He left her about eight years ogo. When the assault case opened, the girl statod chat the evidence at the previous hearing was untrue. She had never been assaulted, but was told by her mother to say so. At the mother’s instigation she bought vitriol to throw over Baker. Her mother said she would send her to Ireland if she got Baker into gaol. The Magistrate, in discharging accused, said the woman was a dangerous criminal, and ordered her to be hold on bail on the I bigamy charge. He sent 4 the papers to the 1 Crown officers to lay a charge of perjury.