“TOO FREQUENT.”

Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20342, 24 June 1938, Page 3

“TOO FREQUENT.”

CRIME OF BIGAMY. MINER SENTENCED. TERM OF HARD LABOUR. [By Telegraph.—Press Association], AULivLAND, June 24. A miner from Iluntly named Robert Million, 38 years of age, was sentenced by Mr. Justice Reed in the Supreme Court yesterday to nine months’ imprisonment with hard labour on a charge of bigamy. On the prisoner’s behalf Mr. Allan Moody said that the men, who had a wife and four children, had lived a normally decent life until about two years ago, when he was the victim of a serious assault, and the injuries appeared to give him a tendency to drink that changed his character. lie left Huntly, came to town and contracted the bigamous marriage with a divorced woman. Counsel added that he understood the man’s wife proposed divorcing him, and that the other woman intended to become his wife.

Remarking that the crime ot' bigamy was becoming too frequent, anil had to be stopped, his Honour said he would have to impose a term of imprisonment. In doing so lie took into consideration the fact that the person whom the man had married bigamously was not a young girl, but a mature woman who had been married previously.