CHARGE OF BIGAMY
TWO YEARS’ PROBATION ORDERED
“This is a serious offence, but one has to consider all these cases on the particular facts applying to them,” said Mr Justice Fleming in the Supreme Court yesterday, when he admitted Henrietta Violet Webb (Mr A. JC. Brassington) to probation for two years on a charge of bigamy. Mr Brassington, in asking for leniency, said that prisoner had been about 21 years of age when she met her second husband, who had returned from overseas service. At that time some of the men did not wish to go back and prisoner’s idea in marrying the man was to help him with the Army in his wish not to return overseas. Her first marriage had lasted only a week.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25364, 11 December 1947, Page 4
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