BIGAMY IN SELF DEFECE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2570, 12 April 1887, Page 2

BIGAMY IN SELF DEFECE.

The Judges in England occaslt/Oly set aside the law and take a reason*io and common-sense view of things. Thus Mr Justice Hawkins the other day disregarded the law of divorce/and . • practically held that bigamy is- no 1 crime when & woman commits it in self defence, Tho prisoner had married a "habitual criminal when she-was \ seventeen, and was deserted by tinj . alter her lirst baby was born, He had; never made any provision for hor;and in the intervals when lie was not in prison lie used to come back to her whenever she'got a situation, a'mijcompel her to keep him, She therefore married her second husband, wha . undertook to prqteut her fiom.theiirst, - who was always threatening .hit,.' . •Husband >o, 1 theief«r<!h«> eustodv fur bigamy. \Yheu all this',' J was proved, Mr .Justice Hawkins,/ lii'Ciiine very excited, ami declared that he re-retted exceedingly that: the . woman had l een iiii|iriMiiied'one moivth . wait-in" triul. He felt that he shbtrfel ■ be v/Hiiting in luiiimiu'y if he woAb or.ier luT to Im iiiipiiroiifd for "WS lion'r beyond that time, and.the fieut.jjice i.hut lie intended lo |iukM'hr . I lint sh/i lie. .iinpl'isiiiied. for one.- hiljl hour, No would' the of the Court d"Bpite the efforiK pi'the official* to ] ire vent ,the ott du'i i cheered the judiciuUiinouneen|Cri£