SUPREME COURT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19009, 9 May 1924, Page 10

SUPREME COURT

PALMERSTON NORTH SITTINGS

(Per Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., May 7. A young man, Bertie Holdsworth, is to be married before next Monday, for the third time, prior to receiving sentence from Justice Salmond for Bigamy, making a false declaration and forgery. The circumstances, as revealed at the trial to-day, are that accused, having had a previous marriage dissolved, but before the decree was made absolute, went through a form oi marriage with a young woman, and, to satisfy the registrar that he was legally free to marry, forged the signature of a local lawyer to a false statement that the degree had been made absolute. Counsel pleaded for leniency, saying that if there had been a short delay no offence would have been committed, but His Honour regarded the case seriously. He agreed, however, that the marriage of the parties would influence his decision, and sentence was deferred till Monday to enable the parties to get married, accused being released on bail. In the case of Alfred Wright and Henry Simpson, charged with conspiracy to defraud a dairy company by faked cream tests, the jury found a. verdict of not guilty and both were discharged. Simpson, with three other farmers who admitted guilt, will be sentenced in respect of these cases tomorrow.