TERM OF IMPRISONMENT FOR BIGAMY.
WELLINGTON, -April 5.
Seven years’ imprisonment' with'.hard labour, for bigamy, two years, for obtaining money by false pretences and a declaration as an habitual criminal were imposed by Mr justice Blair in the Supreme Court on William George Alexander Phillips, aged 63, a carpenter.
The Judge mentioned that the accused Was declared an habitual criminal in 1925 and was released by the Prisons Board to give him another chance, but lie had reverted to blackguardedly criminal ways in circumstances as appalling as one could see.
It was mentioned that the woman whom the accused had bigamously married surrendered two life policies and gave him the proceeds, £l6O. Referring to the woman who was defrauded, the Judge said that she had had £4OO in the Savings Bank and the accused got the lot.
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Western Star, 6 April 1939, Page 2
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