Woman’s Hard Life With Three Men

Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 157, 5 July 1945, Page 4

Woman’s Hard Life With Three Men

The statement that prisoner had obtained a separation order from her husband based on his cruelty and had had a hard life with the two men whom she subsequently married bigamously was made by Mr. C. A. L. Treadw’ell in the Supreme Court, Wellington, when Violet Rose Gould, housemaid-waitress, aged 41, of Palmerston North, appeared for sentence on two charges of bigamy.

Mr. Treadwell said that prisoner, who luid four children by hor first marriage, but none by the subsequent alliances, committed the first offeuce in 1932 and tho second in 1944. because she suffered from a physical disability through infantile paralysis she was a little more dependent than many other women. She had to work hard during her married life and also to keep the other tw-o men later. Nobody hud

suffered any injury through her offeuces. She left the last man because, in her own words, he had "hammered

Mr. Justice Johnston said it would be a mistake if prisoner left the court under the impression that bigamy, whatever the injury caused, was other than a serious offence. There was no excuse that prisoner did not know what she was doirjg. Normally, she would have been sent to gaol, but she would be admitted to probation for tw r o years. That clemency would not be repeated.

"Bracing Effects of Poverty" "I emphasise those words for you who think a Government should take all the struggle out of life for its people,**

said Mr. C. J. Garland in an address before the Auckland Rotary Club, in which he described the Scottish as

' ‘ uncursed by luxury and blessed with the bracing effects of poverty." From a life of struggle had been bred a sturdy race.