BIGAMY ADMITTED

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 71, 25 March 1937, Page 17

BIGAMY ADMITTED

PRISON SENTENCE

(By Telegraph—Press' Association.)

AUCKLAND, March 24. v

A labourer who had been' twice legitimately married came before Mt. Justice Callan in the Supreme Court this morning for sentence for bigamy.

;., John Jack McCartney admitted the charge. He said his first marriage was at Liverpool in/1914. His wife died and he married again at Liverpool in 1918, but.owing to his wife's habits, he left her in- 1920: He went through a form of marriage in' New Zealand in* 1931.

Counsel said the bigamous marriage was happy, and the woman was prepared to marry if the accused obtained a divorce. ;

.It was always difficult .to assess bigamy for the purposes of punishment, said his Honour. A point in favour of the accused »was that he had been kind to the woman he married bigamously, but it was against him that he had concealed the information that he was already married. He was sentenced to six months' imprisonment.