DOUBLE BIGAMIST

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26026, 14 December 1945, Page 4

DOUBLE BIGAMIST

WOMAN SENTENCED THREE MONTHS’ IMPRISONMENT (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Dec. 13. A woman who had admitted two charges of bigamy, Annie Alexander, aged 42, appeared for sentence before Mr Justice Callan in the Supreme Court to-day. Counsel* said the accused was first married at the age of 22 in 1925, but her husband deserted her two weeks later. In 1934 she went through a form of marriage with Kustoa Wilhelm Kanerva, who lost his life in the Sydney harbour in 1942 through the action of a Japanese submarine. The man with whom she went through a form of marriage in June, 1944, was a responsible member of the community, of unblemished character, and he was anxious to marry her as soon as Alexander divorced her. Her actions had hurt no one but herself. ■ His Honor said it was not true to say that the accused’s husband deserted her and there was not a word of truth in the. detailed story she had told about receiving news of her husband's death. She had seen him and spoken to him in Wellington in 1940. This kind of conduct concerned the public deeplyThe sentence would be imprisonment with hard labour for three months.