EXIT A NOTORIOUS BIGAMIST

Evening Star, Issue 12606, 11 September 1905, Page 7

EXIT A NOTORIOUS BIGAMIST

Leoncra Howard I>riimmond James, who had been convicted of bigamy at the Sydney quarter sessions, was brought up for sentence on August 18 When asked if she had anything 10 say* she replied: "Yes. I wish, to say "I am innocent. I have never been examined, and I have not the mark on my back which .Tames and Baker say I have."

Judge Docker, in passing sentence, said: I have read the statement of nearly twelve pages which, you handed in to me. Except ihe first page, in which you state you were iu.merscnaUr.g your sister, tho rest of it is a narrative of Constable Baker's alleged misconduct. You charge him with various offences, trom rape and murder downwards. If what you state is true ho is not fit to be in tbe police force, but his conduct was not the subjecil of the inquiry before tbe jury, and those matters could not therefore be gone into. 1 don't think that anyone who investigated the matter would place any reli-.-icoe in your statement. It seems to ma that tbe conclusion the jury have come to is as absolutely correct as anything can be certain in this world, and I have now to sentence you for this offence of bigamy, in whicli there was persistent perjury on your part. It is a very bad case. The sentence is that you be imprisoned, with light labor, for two years.