UNTIL COURT ROSE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 278, 24 November 1936, Page 8

UNTIL COURT ROSE

BIGAMIST SENTENCED j [Ter Press Association) AUCKLAND Nov. 23. | ' Probably the shortest sentence ever . ! imposed on a man f. r Digamy was ! j that •’served’’ by James Robert SaundI ers, seaman, 11.M.5. Leith, who apI peared for sentence before Mr Jus- ! lice Fair at the Supreme Court this ! morning and was detained until the i rising of the Court. An hour later i ae was free. . The evidence in the Lown’ Court showed that Saunders, aged 25, wes j married in a London registry office in May, 1933, to Joan Davies and went through a form of marriage at I Auckland in April, 1935, with Lor raine Yvonne Archer. { For the accused, Mr Noble said that I he was inveigled into the marriage ! in England by a certain statement bv ! his wife, and they immediately agreed |to separate. The wife went her wav and he went his. Apparently ne thought he was justified in marrying ! again. He was a respectable young I man with a good record in the navy His Honour pointed out that a bigamous marriage always did injury to the woman who was tricked into marriage only to find that she was not married at all. Bigamy was always a serious crime. However, each case should be dealt with according to circumstances. It appeared that the woman whom he married in Auckland did not want him punished, and hr thought he would be justified in treating the case as an exceptional