A WIFE’S' SURPRISE.

Taihape Daily Times, 22 August 1919, Page 2

A WIFE’S' SURPRISE.

Aestory of a woman who married a burglar in total ignorance of his mode of life was told in the Court of Criminal'Appeal, when :1 sentence of seven years’ penal servitude passed on George Bell at the Middlesex sessions for lioiisebreakirig was reduced to five years’ penal servitude. Mr, Justice Darling said Bell conlmitl-pd Zl. bigamous marriage and lied been divorced, but had since iiizirrierl a re. speeiable young Woman, who did not know that he v.':ls a burgliug WllO-2: he failed to return home. she W-Clli’ to the polices station to inquire, and found that he had been arrested_ It. was found by the police that the nzan had ben three times sentenced‘ to penal servitude.