SUPREME COURT SENTENCES
(IT TILIOKAPH_r»H» AMOCUTIOK.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day ' Declaring that there were no redeeming features in the case, Mr. Justice Adams, in the Supreme Court, imposed' a sentence of a year's imprisonment on Thomas Henry Mansley, for bigamy. Counsel said Mansley, three months after separation from his wife in 1915, became infatuated with a second woman, and went through the marriage ceremony. Soon afterwards he went to Samoa", and stayed there till 1920. James Barwald (23) was sentenced to five years' reformative detention for interfering with a girl aged fifteen years and nine months. The evidence showed that intimacy had existed for a long time. The Judge said accused had debauched a child of tender years.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 107, 2 November 1923, Page 8
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117SUPREME COURT SENTENCES Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 107, 2 November 1923, Page 8
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