GUILTY OF BIGAMY.
A SECOND OFFENCE. THREE YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT. AUCKLAND, Wednesday. “ I quite believe that you are weak in mind, but that has not prevented you from committing the crime of bigamy, and this is your second effort ip that direction,” said Mr. Justice Ilerdman, when Joseph James Groonotte came before him for sentence in the Supreme Court yesterday. “ You were convicted before of bigamy and sentenced on that occasion to two years’ imprisonment with hard labour. A few months after you got out of gaol you became acquainted with a young woman, deceived , her and treated tier most cruelly. You will now be sentenced to three years’ imprisonment with hard labour. , , , r „ Mr. Noble, on Groonotte s behalf, had said he was a Belgian, 35 years of age. He was obviously a man of weak intellect and was in poor health. He did not understand the gravity of the offence he had committed.
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Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18169, 6 November 1930, Page 8
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