Doubly Wedded.
A case of wife desertion of an unusual character was heard at the Redfern Police Court in Sydney recently, when Annie Cox sued her husband George Frederick Cox for maintenance. Mrs Cox asserted that after she had married her husband she found that he had been married previously. For this offence he was sent to goal for three years, but upon his release he married her again, as she thought legally. Cox, in hid defence, said that he, too, imagined he was lawfully wedded to the complainant, whom he had married to rectify the wrong he had done her in the first instance. He, however, discovered that although his first wife had obtained a decree »j*i for the dissolution of the marriage while he was in gaol, yet that decree bad never been made absolute. The magistrate said that he could not go behind the second marriage certificate produced, and issued a maintenance order against Cox.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 49, 23 June 1896, Page 4
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158Doubly Wedded. Hastings Standard, Issue 49, 23 June 1896, Page 4
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