BIGAMIST SENTENCED.
THREE YEARS' HARD LABOUR. " PRISONER'S SECOND EFFORT." " I quite believe that you are weak in mind, but that has not prevented you from committing the crime of bigamy, and this is your second effort in that direction," said Mr. Justice Herdman, when Joseph James Groonotto came before him for sentence in tho Supremo Court yesterday. " Yoa were convicted beforo of bigamy and sentenced on that occasion to two years' imprisonment with hard labour. A few months after you got out of gaol you became acquainted with a young woman, deceived her and treated her most cruelly. You will now bo sentenced to three years' imprisonment with hard labour." Mr. Noble, on Groonotte's behalf, had said he was a Belgian, 35 years of age. He was obviously a man of weak intellect and was in poor health. He did not understand the gravity of tho offence ho had committed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20713, 5 November 1930, Page 14
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