GUILTY OF BIGAMY.
THREE YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT. SECOND OFFENCE. AUCKLAND, November 4. <r l quite believe that you are weak io mind but that has not prevented you from committing the crime of bigamy and this is your second effort in that direction, 0 said Mr. Justice Herdman when Joseph James Groonotte came before him for •sentence in the Supreme Court. “You were convicted before of bigamy and sentenced on that occasion to two years f imprisonment with hard labour. A few months after you got out of goal you boeame acquainted with a young woman, deceived her and treated her Mnost cruelly. You will now be sentenced to three years’ imprisonment with hard labour.”—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 5 November 1930, Page 5
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