ELIJAH TRASK, BIGAMIST.
GETS HIS DESERTS. FIVE YEARS' HARD. B> Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, November 10. The Supreme Court criminal sittings opened to-day before Judge Edwards. Elijah Trask, thirty years of age, who had contracted two marriages and was ahSiit to undertake a third when lie was arrested, admitted the offence. The Judge said accused came to New Zealand from Victoria, sought out a young woman of respectable parentage, and under a promise of marriage ruined her life. Prisoner was unlit to be at large. The Judge concluded by sentencing hiin to live years' hard labor.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 273, 11 November 1908, Page 2
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95ELIJAH TRASK, BIGAMIST. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 273, 11 November 1908, Page 2
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