RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 80, 19 January 1876, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

TniSDAY, .Jam-auv IS. (Before Major Turner, li.M.) SJXOI/LAll (MlAlton oK i'KitJL'UY. Thomas Sole was eharg -d on the lollowing information, “ I hat lie did on tli“ 11th or January, 1H«0, f-ds-ly, wi.fully, wiekediy, and corruptly, eommn wdinl and corrupt perjury, in” a deelarat imi made before ,lat 11 -s Hirst. Begi-drar ot Births, D.-iilhs, an I Marring -s lor llie dislriet oi Baiea. in I hat. he, lie- said Tim mas Sole, did lais-.-ly

state the ua.ji • .of Elizabeth Sole to' the E izabeth Baldwin, and thriller did stale (ha i lie- sd I E i/.-ib •( li B- ild win was a .sjiinster. and Bull, lie said Eiizab-th So- e, was of ih • age oi el years, snelr siai loeiifs being la's - and null lie, and b.l-ng an indictable oiL-m-e.’’ James 1 firs I drams d as follows : —1 am Registrar of Births, 1) ;ii 1 1 s, and Marriages,for the Batea 1 ..fist riel. (fit Monday, J.auuarv It), defendant now li.-f-.ir'- the (.'oiir‘, came to m.-aecnmpmi -d liy a R'nr.iho an-1 asked for a marriage he ■use. On empiiry I foiiud, that the couple, had not heVir three cleiir days in the district, therefore [ could not grant, a license till tint following day. (hi the following day, Tuesday the 11 tli, they again came to me and then signed the notice of marriage. Both came but prisoner signed the not ice rd: marriage. It was No. 47 addressed to the Registrar of 'Marriages for the district of Batea. running as follows ‘‘l hereby give ypit nufice that a marriage is intended to in had within (hive calendar mont between me and the other party named and desctibcd.lhat is to say, TlVomas Sole, baeho : lor, farmer, aged 25 years, dwelling place Ilawcr.'n length of residence three days.place where marriage to be solemnised>Registrar’s oilice, Batea," The next name given bv liim was, “ Ivi iz-i 1/-Mr fSildwin, ■ spinster, domestic,- aged '2l years, wild ,J1 ii- same term an ; d place of residence. ; This was 1 signed by prison -r and t he.t nit It of the above partierdars declared to' in the nsn'al form. (Book produced wit o' p-ignai nro of prisoner). In addition prison’er declared also in tlie usual form that there was no legal impediment to Ids marriage. In consequence' of these dee'land iong I issued the usual cert ideate and marked (he parties, in Mm usuil manner, 1 in the presence of two witnesses. I produce the book, in which (We female signed her name as Elizabeth Baldwin. The witnesses were Mr J. Cf. Beamish and Airs James Hirst. A short time afterwards, about a quarter of an hour alter, I was told by Bayley that I bad married the widow of John Sole to his brother. Two or three other people, told me the same thing during the day. 1 reported the ease to the Regis- 4 trar-Geiieral and received instructions' to’ pros.-cute. I may slate that the l< male Was present (he whole time and Concurred! ' in al i that prisoner said.The AI agist rate —It seems to me (hat she should have been arrested too. Examination resumed- I also telegraphed to Mm Registrar at N>'-w Plymouth' j- L .<|nest 1 n.'j,- him to send down cert ificut es of birth, and marriage. In reply I received the documents produced, by which f tin ) (hat John Rule and Louisa , Elizabeth Baldwin were married on Mie 2hth August,' 1874, bv the Rev. John Dumholl at New Plymouth. Next by a certified copy of. a dochnienl produced that on July Ist, 1857, Louisa Elizabeth Baldwin was born. This is duly sighed, and I put both document:? in'.- 'Tins shows her age-to lm under "if I years, t also hold in my hand a letter front ! tbe'Regist rar of New Blymmith, in which he : states that the parlies had applied to hint Ito be married, but he refused to marry i them as illegal. The Jot!i clause of the Marriage Act. 1854, provides, that if any one procure a marriage by Ca'se rep’resentationw, he or she shall be guilty of a misdemeanour. I wish to take tnis opportunity of expressing (lie extreme regret wilh'which I liave been compelled by my ' duty to take these pVoeeedings, having known the prisoners I amity tor twenty years; I think Mie. female should have been' Brought for identification, that, bein',g a weak point in Mm eas--. The Magistrate repeated bis opinion. That sh-e should have been arrested as well; Walter Bavb-v, labourer, said.— I am a : labourer residing in Carlyle. i know Mm prisoner an 1 have ven Mm female lie w.-i supposed to-h-married to. 1 km-w John - Role of l fid, to whom sin- was : married. Mm bi-ol In V of Mm iiecnsed, wl?e.se widow she now is. T saw Mie parlies on tin- 10th. I am aw.-ire Mud she was'married. Pris.- n’-r did led ask me to go down £o witness the wedding. J. (d. Ifiani'ish said —f am a publican, residing in Batea. I was present, af the m'ai rihge of the parties, and signed MeI book produced as a witness. I also saw prisoner air I tin- l-.-iiialc sign Mm book mi Tnesdav,- the 11th hist.,- in the’ Registrar’s i oil fee. at < ‘arl vie.

Corfsl.dile Tapp, wtio had brought Hie prisoner IVoni New Biy,,.on!li. proved that Hie hitl l T was arrested oU Saturday even-' inc,' hv Sergeant Bidlhi. Un ; hi/nVg asked in the usual way if lie had anything to say, prisoner said lie had nothing’io s iy. lie was rlcn eommiitcd to lake' his trial at the District Court, to' he held o-i the Ist of March next. Bail to lie Oaken prisoner in £MO, and IwC surei ics' pi’ toP each. The bail was forthcoming at once/ d'homas. Sole senior, and .John Crozier, both ok Now Plymontii, being the bondsmen. The Cohrl tlien adjourned.