Matrimonial Complication.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 992, 29 October 1881, Page 2

Matrimonial Complication.

One of the most remarkable connubial puzzles that we have ever heard of was unravelled in a Sydney Police Court the other day. It appears that one Simpson married a woman nomed Garnham, and, after a short experience of married life, he deserted her, and got “ hitched up ” with another woman named O’Neale. In a moment of weakness, however, he took up his residence near where his first wife lived. She, discovering his whereabouts, prosecuted him for bigamy, and he was sent to gaol for five years. While in gaol, Sampson made the acquaintance of a man named Gaanham, who turned out so be the husband of his first wife. Through the influence of the woman who had prosecuted him Simpson was released in four months, and at once prosecuted his benefactress for Jmarrying him when she had already been married to Garnham. She escaped by showing that she hah not heard from her husband for seven years. When the man Garnham came out of gaol he refused to live with his wife, and Simpson refused to live with either of his, whereupon the other wife, O’Neale-Simpson, sued him for maintenance. Now the question is—whose husband is Simpson ? The Bench didn t know, and advised the woman to appeal to to the Supreme Court. This story of domestic entanglement almost approaches the mythical instance of the man who was his own grandfather, and as the motif of a first-rate [farce or “ Betsy ’’-like comedy is unequalled.