Is It Bigamy ?

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 696, 22 June 1929, Page 18

Is It Bigamy ?

Young Man’s Problem BETROTHED TO SIAMESE-TWIN JF a man marries a Siamese twin, does he commit bigamy? This weird problem is confronting Carlos Josefe, 21-year-old son of the general manager of the Ford Motor Company, Mexico.

It is cabled that Carlos wants to marry Margaret Gibb, one of the famous Gibb twins, who are joined back to back.

Mary and Margaret Gibb are about 18 years old, and are exhibited as a musical turn on vaudeville circuits. A few months ago it was cabled that they were seeking a surgeon who would separate them. There were no offers; X-rays show that the hip-bones are fused, and death -would follow separation.

Apparently Mary Gibb has decided to make the best of a bad job, now a young Mexican husband is in the offing for Margaret.

Exactly the same dilemma con-

fronted the Blazek sisters, joined similarly. Josefa married, and had a child. Botli twins nourished it. Chang and Eng, the original Siamese, went one better. They married two sisters, and all lived together t*H the sisters quarrelled and separated. Then the Siamese spent alternate weeks with each. Later Eng tried to get surgical separation from Chang, who had started the gay life. Nobody would venture Chang drank himself to death. when Josefa Blazek lay dying of pneumonia in 1923, surgeons offered to cut away Rosa (who was not infected) as a desparate chance. The twins’

brother forbade it, and Rosa died * few minutes after her sister. The Hilton twins (at P r ® se “ . vaudeville circuit with saxophone piano turn) also recently surgical separation; but as .hi spines and hips are fused, Ua® Gibbs, the risk is too great t Both Hiltons and Gibbs cla Tl B ( they are separate entities, y, each pair can stay awake wju a other sleeps. But if fan rage, the other is “upset,’ ah thoughts, likes and dislikes are same. . gO iT« How young Josefe is going m his problem is arousing curios both physicians and laity.