BIGAMIST SENT TO GAOL
JUDGE'S SCATHING REMARKS. A CASE FOR THE LASH. (Received July o, 11.35 a.m.)' LONDON, July 4. George Lucid has been sentenced at the Old Bailey to seven years' imprisonment for bigamy. Two thousand seven hundred letters were discovered in Lucid's lodgings, showing that he. had been in correspondence with forty-two women simultaneously. He obtained £ISOO from one woman. Judge Rentoul, in sentencing the prisoner, said he hoped the Suffragettes would be able to change the law so as to make the offence of bigamy punishable with flogging.*
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10279, 6 July 1911, Page 5
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91BIGAMIST SENT TO GAOL Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10279, 6 July 1911, Page 5
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