LATE FOR SENTENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 116, 17 May 1924, Page 6

LATE FOR SENTENCE.

■ BREACH OF MARRIAGE ACT NTTCXIFIES SERIO US OU^, SUPREME COURT INCIDENT; i • (By Telegraph—Special to "Star-'i CHRISTCHURCH, thi. '1 3 Charles Henry Augustus Jones ™_v not be found this morning to be sp. the bar of the Supreme Court for *' tence. Last Monday he had D w£ guilty to a charge of making a f-W declaration under the Marriage Ar"Mr. Justice Adams ordered-the grre..-. of Jones, who was a prisoner, ye t isff a prisoner, for he was on bail on'wiown recognisance of £100. Hi ß CODn ,~f , Mr. R. Twyneham, made a very agitata' '• search for his client this morning g$ \ not finding him, suggested to hfe-i Honor that Jones should be arrested and sentence deferred for a few dan .* just for the salutary effect. *? • Jones was arrested by the police ■: almost at the doors of the Court lay- ■'■? ing made a mistake in the time for hia ' appearance of half an hour. However' the excuse availed him nothing, and he' l ! will remain in custody until next Wed-' 1 nesday, when be will be sentenced. The case is an unusual one. ' Jones' »' who is only 20 years of age, first found trouble when he was charged with ! carnal knowledge of a fifteen-year-old'i girl. After he had been charged with-! this offence at the Magistrate's Court ! and released on bail until his trial iti the Supreme Court. Jones made inquiriej : at the office of the Christchurcb. regi»-'! trar of births, marriages and deaths regarding a marriage certificate. He was warned of the consequences of ' marrying a girl under 21 years of age without first gaining the consent of het_ .parents. He. then, it is stated, took the girl to Ashburton, and they were married by the Ashburton registrar, Jonej, it is alleged, declaring that they were both over 21 sears of age. In this way he Blipped out of the serious knowledge charge preferred against him, because a wife cannot be asked to give evidence against her husband. But-[ he found himself charged with making g-i false marriage declaration, and he JmM remanded to appear for sentence this i morning. If nothing else the incident ' provided a welcome break from tie strain of the trotting cases. : :-,Z.\