SALESMAN’S DOUBLE LIFE.

Shannon News, 12 February 1929, Page 4

SALESMAN’S DOUBLE LIFE.

EXTRAORDINARY EEATURE

London, Jan. 26,

Remarkable facts of a Manchester fish salesman's double life were revealed in a will dispute before the Chancery Division. Deceased left a total estate of £856 to “my wife Eliza Ann Smalley," whom he married in 1924. His real wife, whom he married in 1889, claimed the property. Mr. Justice Eve remarked that it was an extraordinary, feature that the man had lived with both women to the time of his death, in 1928. Counsel for the second wife: “And he seems to have visited a third." 1 MJf. Justice Eve that |hcf salesman was an amorous gentleman and decided, though he had bigamously married a second woman and divided his life between two, that when he left the whole of his possessions to his wife, it must be held to mean his real wife.