THREEFOLD BIGAMIST.

Auckland Star, Volume 198, Issue LVII, 21 August 1926, Page 23

THREEFOLD BIGAMIST.

RECORDER'S CURE FOR AN EGOIST. "Yon are a regular Don Juan. Too have ruined woman after woman, and In my judgment women are much more vainable than goods and chattels. You will go fo a place where your egoism will be curbed and where you will be forcibly made an altruist." With this comment the Recorder, Sir Ernest Wild, K.C., at the Old Bailey, sentenced Jean Stuart Wynne (36), traveller, who pleaded guilty to bigamously marrying Miss Violet Baker, to three years' penal -servitude. Detective-Sergeant Alfred Mander said that Wynne, whose real name was Williams, was a native of Tredegar, and was legally married at Merthyr in 1911, while working as a miner. Before he met Miss Baker he had married three other women and had served three months for one bigamy. It was under the name of Captain Peter Ward that he courted Miss Baker, while she was spending a holiday in Scotland. He "married" her in October last at Kilburn. He represented to her father that he had money coming to him and borrowed £ 500 from him, with which he purchased a motor car, joined the Xeasden Golf Clnb, and posed to the members as a wealthy man. Wynne, in his defence, said: "The trouble is that I happen to meet women with some tragedy in their lives, and they appeal to my sympathy. I try to cheer them up and they mistake it for affection."