HAT TRICK

NZ Truth, Issue 1201, 6 December 1928, Page 7

HAT TRICK

Man With Three Wives Mourns In Gaol (From "N.Z. Truth's" 'Melbourne Rep.) James, Horaoe Livingstone has performed the matrimonial hat trick. He has -just been' sent to gaolfor 12 months for bigamy, and It isjust 12 months since he was convicted for a similar offence. I iyiNGSTpNB raade ' the round of ~ 'the Melbourne, monumental 'masons recently, . and, borrowed money from them on the strength o£;orders for expensive'tombstones "tor persons who were neither dead nor alive-^-who did ■not exist. In, one case the went the length of weeping crocodile tears over the. brother of his victim, who had just been., f qjind dea^d. at his bench.- Livingstons ihjpud^rjtly examined the .body and pronounced life extinct. 1 One... of 'bis poses T^asaa an officer of a coastal tjoat, and he dressed; the part.' It- wa.B. m .that -self- same uniform that he wooed and won wife No. 3, Whp named tho- day -after a very Tartef | -acquaintanceship. , : It was, : SLfter his arrest for his ghbulia]\.e3,ciapaaes that she learned of his' matrimonial history. He is at prepent m jraol, and his : prior convictions —which; of courße, don't include the three^ impositions ' on 'the 'monumental masons— -totaMO.