BIGAMY CHARGE
Press Association.)
Six Months For Auckland Offender
(By relexrapb—
AUCKLAND, This Day. The statement that the prisoner seemed to have committed a deliberate breach of the law, regardless of the liarm he might inflict on others, was made by Mr Justice Fair, when Thomas Heory Roy Sage, nged 37, a inechanic, canie up for senteuce on a charge of bigamy. Evidence in the lower Court showed that the prisoner married in 1924. His wifo left him three months later to visit her mother and in the follovving year met him in a solicitor's office to discuss divorce. In July, 1927, the prisoner vvent through a form of marriage with another woman. The Judge said: "The prisoner did not take the trouble to get divoi'ce and he married kgain without informing the Woman of his first marriage. Bigauty often resulted in a woiiittu's life being ruinetl.'' . Sentenee of six moutlis' impiisoii menti was imposed.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 102, 17 May 1937, Page 7
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