BIGAMY A HABIT

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8190, 3 August 1912, Page 9

BIGAMY A HABIT

MAN WHO MARRIED SIX WIVES IM NINE YEARS. “This is certainly the case ot bigamy I have ever come across, saidalr Justice Channell at the Wells Assizes (Eng.) recently, when addressing Harry Johnstone Jordan, who had pleaded gull' tv to bigamouslv marrying five women. ’ * Jordan, who is forty years of age. is an insurance superintendent, and stood shivering and trembling iu the dock, * wretched-looking object. For the prosecution it was stated that Jordan was first married in 1887, but after living with his wife for eleven weeks he deserted her, taking some of her jewellery. The first bigamous marriage was in. 1901 at Leeds. Ho lived with the woman two months before deserting her, after borrowing .£3O from her mother. Thethird marriage was in 1902, and he lived with this woman for five weeks. The next year he married again, and deserted the woman at the end of ten weeks. The fourth victim ,he also deserted after borrowing JES and taking he*gold watch and chain. The last bigamous marriage was in 1906. Jordan was living with this woman in London at the time of his arrest. Sentence of three years’ penal servitude was passed.