A BIGAMIST
THREE YEAR’S HARD LABOUR
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.
DUNEDIN, July 4
“This is a had case,” said His Honour, Mr Justice Kennedy in the Supreme Court this afternoon, in sentencing Edward John Henry to three years’ hard labour imprisonment for bigamy. “Jt was impossible to disguise the fact,” said His Honour, “that the prisoner has shown a callous indifference to his wife and to his numerous family. The depositions, have made it clear that he left his wile, deserted and unmaintained in Invercargill, and came to Dunedin, where he went through a form of marriage with another woman, and set up a separate establishment.” The prisoner Jmd failed to live honestly, though he had been treated leniently for an offence involving dishonesty, and though he had .served a sentence of three years’ hard labour for the crime of carnal knowledge. Mr Q. J. L. White, who appeared for the prisoner, said that Henry was married in the first place in England, while on war service, and brought his wife to New Zealand, there being sixsurviving children of the marriage.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 July 1930, Page 2
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