GAOL FOR BIGAMY
MARRIED AT SEVENTEEN A SOLDIER’S MISTAKE Press Associatio>i PALMERSTON N., To-day. In the Supreme Court Arthur Henry Whittingham, who, as a youth of seventeen, when on leave from the front in 1915, married a woman eight years older than himself and married again in New Zealand in 1923, was sentenced to a month’s gaol on the charge of bigamy. Counsel stated that accused's English wife refused to come to the Dominion. His Honour refused probation, saying accused yielded to temptation, but his action showed a lack of sense of all responsibility.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 41, 11 May 1927, Page 9
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94GAOL FOR BIGAMY Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 41, 11 May 1927, Page 9
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