“TO AVOID PROSECUTION"
MAN MARRIES YOUNG GIRL “There is not the slightest doubt but that you married this girl, who was only .15, to avoid a criminal prosecution for carnal knowledge,” said Mr. Justice Reed in the Supreme Court this morning, when imposing a sentence of IS months’ imprisonment with hard labour on Henry Osman for bigamy. The prisoner handed in a statement. His Honour said the prisoner was married in 1914, but his wife proved mental. In 1922 he married this girl of 15 years to escapea worse penalty. The case was different to that of Warbrooke. who had acted decently.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 289, 27 February 1928, Page 11
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102“TO AVOID PROSECUTION" Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 289, 27 February 1928, Page 11
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