BIGAMIST GAOLED
(Fwr Prnsa Association.) AUCKLAND, this day
Stating that he had been unable to find any extenuating circumstances, Mr. Justice" Smith in tho Supreme Court, yesterday passed a sentence of three years' imprisonment with hard labor on Owen Barber, 45, a farm laborer, for bigamy.
"The, circumstances of your association with this other woman' amounts to a cold calculation of bigamy, for which there is no excuse," said His Honor. "Apart from that, you have inflicted a grave and serious' injustice upon a young woman."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17175, 4 February 1930, Page 5
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86BIGAMIST GAOLED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17175, 4 February 1930, Page 5
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