PROPOSAL FROM DOCK IN BIGAMY CASE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17837, 4 May 1926, Page 8

PROPOSAL FROM DOCK IN BIGAMY CASE.

THREE YEARS’ PENALTY FOR ILLEGAL WEDDING

(Special to the “Star.”) LONDON, March 25. After Miss Doris Maud Smith had given evidence of • her bigamous marriage to Horace Impev, aged twentysix, manager, at the Old Bailey yesterday, Impey was asked if he wished to question her. Impey: Yes. (To witness): I want to make sure whether, if my wife divorces me, you will marry, me again legally. The Recorder: You need not answer that if you like.

Miss Smith: If he gets his divorce I will marry him again.

The legal wife was called and asked if she proposed to divorce him. Witness (emphatically): No, my lord, because I have no other means of supP °Detective-Sergant Ayto said Impey had been convicted of a previous bigamy in 1924. On that occasion he stole money belonging to his employers, and went to the North of England, where he went through a form of marriage with a Miss Goodman. The Recorder said mercy was wasted on such a man. He had been leniently treated in the past, but instead of profiting by it he had ruined Miss Smith and gone through the ghastly farce of a wedding in church with bridesmaids and presents.Impey was sentenced to three years’ penal servitude.