WIFE GETS THE WRONG HUSBAND
ONE SOLDIER IMPERSONATES "ANOTHER. By Teletrrapl—Press Association—Copy rljM . London, August 18. ; A soldier was committed for trial at Manchester on a. charge of impersonating a Sergeant Dandy, who is fighting at the Dardanelles. Evidence was given that the prisoner entered Mrs.! Dandy's shop, sobbing: "Oh, I'm pleased to get horn© to my wife and. children." Mrs. Dandy accepted him as her husband, and lived with him for 1 a week until relatives expressed doubts _ regarding his identity. He explained his altered appearance by the horrors of the war and the seriousness of his wounds, and.excused his lack of knowledge of Dandy's home affairs by loss of memory. i Soldiers who fought with Dandy declared that prisoner was an impersonator. Mrs. Hall, of • Patrioroft, gave evidence that prisoner was her husband, who enlisted early in the year, and had since been training in North 'Wales. Mrs. Hall, on, leaving the Court, shouted: "It's a caution to people who do not known their own husbands. You're as bad as he is. ;I should kpow my husband in a hundred."
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2545, 20 August 1915, Page 6
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182WIFE GETS THE WRONG HUSBAND Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2545, 20 August 1915, Page 6
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