Seeks Divorce

NZ Truth, Issue 1174, 31 May 1928, Page 7

Seeks Divorce

MOT only is he a 6elf -confessed 11 bigamist, who was sentenced m 1921 to , three years' imprison- ; ment for' the offence, but he is a ' man with a colossal impudence. \ Frederick William Seaton, engineer, of Papakura, married Olive V Elizabeth Seaton m 1917. He was then a widower with two children and she was a widow with one child. Seaton could not provide adequately for his wife, so they agreed to separate for a while, both to go. out and work, until they could setup housekeeping together. He contracted a bigamous mar* riage and In 1921 at Palmerstbn North he, pleaded guilty to the charge and was sentenced. ' He bobbed, up m Christchurch v last week with a petition for a . divorce against hi 3 legal wife .oh , „ , the grounds of desertion. Frederick missed badly; m fact, he was not present m court, but , he must have heard of his wife's '„-,■:. counter-petition. ' Olive's tale was soon told and no time was wasted by the judge m handing out a decree.