FATHER’S ACT
•SOLD DAUGHTER INTO BONDAGE’
BRISBANE, May 31.
In the Supreme Court to-day Marie Louisa Carstens, 18, pleaded guilty to having gone through a form of marriage with Edwin Welch wihile sho was still married to Arthur Carstens. Sho was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, which was suspended on her entering into a bond of £lOO to be of good, behaviour. On a charge of having procured his daughter to go through a bigamous iharriage Albert Eyers was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, the sentence to be suspended at the end of one month on a bond of £lOO.
Welch, who had previously been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, which was suspended on a. similar bond, was called before the Court again and had his sentence set aside and the bond cancelled. Addressing Eyers, Mr Acting. Justice Hart said: “You really sold your daughter into bondage. A white slaver deals with the flesh and blood oft other people not as a rule, with that of his own child. Apparently because you thought there was a better prospect in view, you deliberately got Carstens out of the way, and procured this marriage with the other man.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 June 1935, Page 9
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