HIS “TROUBLED LIFE”

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 August 1933, Page 5

HIS “TROUBLED LIFE”

PLEA OP FOURFOLD BIGAMIST. LONDON, June 11. Charged at Essex Assizes, at Chelmsford, yesterday with bigamously marrying two women, and asking that, the case relating to a third should be taken into consideration, David Gisby (56), a plumber, was said hy his counsel to have had a troubled life. Mr. Justice Horridge: I should] think he would expect a troubled life if he married four women. Gisby was said to have married in 1895 and deserted his wife in 1922. Immediately after, he married Miss Amy Mary Holland, telling her he was a bachelor. Two years later his wifo served a maintenance order on him, but Miss Holland continued to 'live with him. In 1932 Gisby told Miss Holland that he would divorce his wife, but in order to do so he and Miss Holland must separate. This they did, and the same month Gisby married Miss Florence Emily Day at Shoreditch, they lived together until Gisby went to hospital. There, he wrote to his first bigamous wife to visit him. On the same day his second “wife” paid him a visit, and the two women met and found that Gisby had married both of them. Sentencing Gisby to nine months hard labour on each charge, to run consecutively, his lordship said: “I have seldom come across a worse case of bigamy than this.”