"WHAT WIFE?"
STRANGE COURT INTERLUDE.
A chance observation in the Magistrate's Court yesterday led to an instruction, to the police to investigate what was regarded as a possible case of bigamy. , A 'woman, frail and gray, was escorted into Court respecting a case in which her eon was being prosecuted for having disobeyed an order of the Court to' pay certain money towards her maintenaiice. Mr. Fraser, S.M., explained to the mother tluittho son wished to have his evidence heard in Napier, and remarked that he had in his hand.a lottev on the subject from the son's wife, "His wife I" exclaimed the old lady. "What wife?" "I don't know which wife,"'replied the Magistrate. "How ' many has he?" ■■ • ' The old lady produced a photograph which she said wns of his wife and child, who were in England. . "You had better look into this sergeant," said His Worship to the police. "It may be a case of bigamy." The case was. adjourned for three weeks.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 5, 1 October 1918, Page 4
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164"WHAT WIFE?" Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 5, 1 October 1918, Page 4
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