ONE DAY FOR BIGAMY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 14 July 1913, Page 6

ONE DAY FOR BIGAMY.

VICAR, DISCOVERS MATRIMONIAL TANGLE. / The nominal sentence of on© day's imprisonment was passed at the Old Bailey on Ernest Joseph Hart, fortynine, manager of an Islington Viaoleum firm, Mho pleaded 0 bi Ka _ mously Martha Louisa Smith." The Recorder asked, "how cam© this case to be dug up after fourteen years?" Sergeant Hainri said the second "marriage" was performed at Penwith, Cumberland, ibut nothing would have been heard of the matter if Hart had not ■attempted to marry ''& thiftl woman. At St. Augustine's, Highbury, where he married his first wife, he published the banns of mar r riago with a woman named Stout, ■fflbtt the vicar became suspicious, and, informed .the police. As a matter of fact, said the Sergeant, the first wife divorced Har£ in 1912, and last February when the banns were published at Highbury, he was a fro man. The vicar did not know this at the time. The Rtcoixlcr remarked that Martha Smith hud never proceeded against TTart, whose good character he toolt into consideration in passing sentence.