THREE WIVES FOR ZO YEARS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 227, 17 November 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

THREE WIVES FOR ZO YEARS.

.MODEL MAN'S SKCKKT REVEALED BY HIS WILL:

Tim will of Mr. William Wallace Snyder, cf Mount Vernon, New York State, and Harrison and East Orange, New Jersey, has revealed the astonishing fact that for twenty years he was the husband of three "wives'', all residing within a few miles of (me another.

Suspicion first arose when the newspapers in the three towns published deatli notices, all of which differed as regards tho name of the wife and tlr; number of the family. Mr. Snyder in his will ignored the Harrison Mrs. Snyder, but acknowledged a Mrs. •Snyder of Mount Vermin ,and also a Mrs. Snyder of East ((range. Up to a few days before is last February, at the age of sixty-seven years, he spent much of bis time at Ins Harrison re>idence with the whitehaired woman of sixty-one who had been his companion for many years. They bore the reputation of a. highly respectable old couple. Mr. Snyder himself was esteemed a= one of the solid citizens of (he commumtv.