CHARGE OF BIGAMY
WEBB SENTENCED. A YEAR’S IMPRISONMENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The gravity of the crime of bigamy was stressed by the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) in the Supreme Court, Wellington, yesterday in sentencing Walter Albert Kenneth Webb, labourer ,aged 25, wno was remanded from Masterton for sentence to a year’s imprisonment with hard labour for this offence. He went through the form of marriage with a' woman at Martinborough, when he was already married, with his wife living. Appearing on behalf of Webb, Mr W. D. Goodwin said that prisoner’s bigamous wife had given birth to a child. When prisoner was 21 he contracted an unfortunate marriage, his wife refusing to leave her parents’ home when he got work elsewhere. He appeared to have taken to drink to seek refuge from his matrimonial troubles. Then he met the other woman who persuaded him to give up drink and reside with her at her parents' home. He could have saved himself, but an odd streak of chivalry in his nature made him go through a form of marriage.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 June 1939, Page 7
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182CHARGE OF BIGAMY Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 June 1939, Page 7
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