A CHARGE OF PERJURY. PECULIAR CASE IN A SYDNEY COURT.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 17, 20 July 1905, Page 5

A CHARGE OF PERJURY. PECULIAR CASE IN A SYDNEY COURT.

[press association.] SYDNEY, 19th July. A remarkable case was investigated at the Police Court to-day, when a police constable named Baker was charged on remand with criminal assault on his stepdaughter. Baker a couple of days ago sought to have a maintenance order secured by his wife varied, on the ground that the woman was not his wife. At the time the order was granted, a charge of bigamy hud been preferred against her, and Harry James, a confectioner, residing at Wavci-ley, New Zealand, has sinco identified the woman as his wife, whom he married at Wellington. He said he left her about eight years ago. When tho assault case opened to-day, tho girl stated that,, her evidenco at the previous hearing was untrue. She said she had never been assaulted, but was told by her mother to say she had been. At her mother's instigation she bought vitriol to throw over Baker. Her mother said she would send her to Ireland if she got Baker into gaol. The Magistrate, in discharging the accused, said the woman was a dangerous criminal. He ordered her to bo held on the bigamy charge, and sent papers to the Crown law officers to lay a chargo of perjury.