BIGAMY.
TWO YEARS' IMPRISONMENT. CBy Telegraph.—Pres3 Association.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. A. sentence of two years' imprisonment with hard labour was passed on Thomaa Farrow, who was found guilty at the Supreme Court to-day on a charge of having committed bigamy, having been married in England in 1914, and in Wellington last year. At the request of prisoner's counsel, who raised the point as to whethe-r the Crown was bound to prove affirmatively that the first wife was alive when the second marriage took place, Mr. Justice Chapman agreed to state a case for the Court of Appeal.
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 265, 7 November 1919, Page 9
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