WOMAN TWICE DIVORCED.
Auckland, Nov. 30. Elizabeth Pearce, boarding-house-keeper, gave evidence in the Divorce Court this morning. She states that at the age of sixteen, in the year ISS6, she married William Pearce, who deserted her twelve months later. In 1890 she was informed that Pearce had been killed in an accident in Dunedin. She read the account of such accident in the newspaper. Three years later she went through a form of marriage with Peter McCabe, and lived three years with him. Then he left her and went with another woman, whom he had since married. After twenty years’ absence William Pearce turned up in 1907. In 1908 Mrs Pearce obtained a divorce on the ground of desertion. A petition for nullity of the marriage with McCabe was granted.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 925, 1 December 1910, Page 2
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130WOMAN TWICE DIVORCED. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 925, 1 December 1910, Page 2
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