BIGAMY.
THREE YEARS' IMPRISONMENT. (press association telegram.) DUNEDIN, July 4. "This is a bad case,'' said his Honour Mr Justice Kennedy An the Supremo Court this afternoon, in sentencing Edward John Henery to three years' hard labour for bigamy. It was impossible to disguise the. fact, said his Honour, that prisoner had shown a callous indifference to his wife, and to his family. The depositions made it clear that he left His wife deserted and unmaintained in. Invercargill, and came to Dunedin, where he went through a form of marriage with another woman, and set up a separate establishment. The prisoner had failed to live honestly, though he had been treated leniently for an offence involving dishonesty,; and though he had served a sentence of, three years' hard labour for the crime of carnal knowledge. Mr C. J. L. White, who appeared for prisoner, said that Henery was married in the first place in . England while on war service, and brought his wife to New Zealand. There were six surviving children of the- marriage.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19972, 5 July 1930, Page 5
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