SENTENCE IN THE AUCKLAND MARRIAGE CASE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 4417, 10 July 1884, Page 2

SENTENCE IN THE AUCKLAND MARRIAGE CASE.

(lIV TELWiRAPH—I'KESS ASSOCIATION.)

Wellington, this day. At the Supreme Court yesterday Charles Henry Monckton, who was found guilty of making falso representations under the Marriage Act, was brought up for sentence His Honor said: Prisoner, the scandal which your trial has exposed to view is one which must make even a hardened profligate blush to have occasioned it. At the present moment you are justly an object of contempt and disgust. Tho act of which you have been found guilty may, in some cases, be almost a venial offence, but you stand convicted of having made a lying declaration to advance a vile purpose. I call it a vile purpose, because the niarriage was, under the circumstances, nothing else than a dis<,'ustin<; kind of prostitution. The institution of marriage is the corner-stone ot society. You have vilified and degraded it in a way almost unheard of, And I feel bound, by severe punishment, to vindicate the laws which protect it. The sentence is that you be kept in imprisonment, with hard labour, for a term of two years. At the Supreme Court this morning Arinie Lynch, on the charge of making a false doclaration under the marriage act, was sen'enced to eighteen months imprisonment. ;.,