A CLERICAL BIGAMIST.
EXEMPLARY SENTENCE
At Gloucester Assizes, before Mr Justice Mathew, Arthur Mordaunt Hale, 25 years of age, clerk in holy orders, who pleaded guilty. to marrying Edith Mary Burr at Gloucester, his wife, to whom' he was secretly married at a Bristol registry office, being alive, ■ was sentenced to five years' penal servitude. The judge, in commenting strongly on the serious nature of the crime, said the first wife was apparently not in the same rank of life with the prisoner. He tried to keep this marriage secret, but the course he ought to have taken as an honest man was at once to have broken the engagement with Miss Burr, ,rith whom he was acquainted before marriage.- He had been guilty of treacherous conduct, \ and he must suffer severely for the irreparable wrong he had done to the young lady,whose life had been clouded with humiliation. Moreover, the offence was aggravated by the position he held as a minister of the Gospel. Prisoner appeared staggered at the sentence, and said nothing1.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 184, 6 August 1898, Page 3 (Supplement)
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174A CLERICAL BIGAMIST. Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 184, 6 August 1898, Page 3 (Supplement)
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