BIGAMIST SENTENCED
SEVEN YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT. APPALLING CIRCUMSTANCES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. “I reckon this case is as appalling a set of circumstances as one could meet with. It is lamentable altogether. You are not fit to be at liberty,” saidMr Justice Blair in the Supreme Court in Wellington yesterday, when sentencing William George Alexander Phillips, carpenter, to seven years’ imprisonment for bigamy and to two years, for false pretences. The sentences are to be concurrent. Prisoner, who had, according to the calendar, 21 previous convictions dating from 1896, was' re-declared an habitual criminal. The Crown Prosecutor (Mr W. H. Cunningham), said the statement of the woman who was bigamously married was to the effect that she surrendered two life policies, and gave the prisoner the proceeds, amounting to £l6O.
Phillips: She never gave me one penny. She bought the car herself, and now has possession of it. “She had £4OO in the Savings Bank, and you got the lot,” said his Honour.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1939, Page 9
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164BIGAMIST SENTENCED Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1939, Page 9
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