THREE YEARS FOR BIGAMY
MAN’S SECOND OFFENCE tPer Press Association.) ,AUCKLAND, last night, “1 quite believe that you are weakill mind, but that has not prevented you from committing the crime of bigamy, and (his is your second effort in that direction,” said Mr. Justice Herd man when Joseph James G.roonotte came before him for sentence in the Supreme Court. “You were convicted before of bigamy, and sentenced on that occasion to two years’ imprisonment with hard labor. A few months after you got out of gaol you became acquainted with a young woman, deceived her. and treated her most cruelly. Y r ou will now be sentenced to three years’ imprisonment with hard labor.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17408, 5 November 1930, Page 4
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115THREE YEARS FOR BIGAMY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17408, 5 November 1930, Page 4
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