TWO NAMES AND TWO WIVES

NZ Truth, Issue 1178, 28 June 1928, Page 4

TWO NAMES AND TWO WIVES

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Wellington Representative.) IT Is bewildering to think that a man who leaves his own country for another, should sit at a table, and, by an icy process of deliberate reasoning, at one fell swoop decide to call himself Albert Victor James George McWarren, then pile up further records of social insanity committing bigamy. . . „ •« %»•■•< i jj - ' A less romantic individual would have styled himself Willianji Judd and been satisfied with the embraces of one wife; but when a, man's proper name is James Albert Michael McMahon, it seems fair to sug- :. gest. that. Irish heredity must take the bit between its teeth at some time or other. t . Maybe, petectlve Bill Murray threw some significant light upon the situation when he said that McMahon described the wife he married m England on March 11, 1911, as nothing more nor less than a lady whose moral virtues were based upon a distinctly questionable 'In 1922 he married an estimable lady named Kathleen O'Flaherty, Who blessed his household with three thriving children. '■■'■ Rumor of this new-found happiness must have reached the ears of his first wife, and the result of her activities m the direction of bringing her straying partner to heel is that McMahon now awaits sentence at the next sitting of the Supreme Court at Wellington.