HE KNEW HIS WIFE
LONDON, July 12. a 37-year-old Snssex herdsman. Douglas Whyatt, committed. bigamy to get his legal wife hack. After 14 ye'ars of happy marpied life, she left without leaving her address. Whyatt, after a fruitless search, reasoned that, if he married again, his wife was bound to hear of it, and eould write to relatives thereby disclosing her address. The herdsman contacted a woman through a matrimonial agency and went through a form of marriage. His real wife, sure ehough, wrote to her mother-in-law regardihg the matter, and Whyatt tracked her down front the address in the letter, htit in the Lewes Assizes today he was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for what the Judge descrihed as ' ' something entirely new. ' '
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 July 1946, Page 5
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123HE KNEW HIS WIFE Chronicle (Levin), 15 July 1946, Page 5
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