ANOTHER “DEEMING” CASE
GEORGE SMITH AND HIS WIVES.
SENSATIONAL CASE IN ENGLAND
United , Press Association. (Received 9.20 a.m.) London, March 9. At the trial of George Smith, Mr Bodkin, K'.C., states that there had been several other marriages. One woman stated that a few days after her wedding in September, to Smith, he took her savings, amounting to £9O, and disappeared. In another case Smith married the 18-year-old daughter of parents whose consent was. refused. On February 4th, the Home Office ordered the exhumation of the bodies of two wives of George Smith, both of whom- died while in a bath shortly after their marriage with Smith. Smith was charged with making a false entry in the marriage register.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 57, 10 March 1915, Page 6
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119ANOTHER “DEEMING” CASE Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 57, 10 March 1915, Page 6
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