Siamese Twins Become Engaged
j NOTHKR romance in ! which Siamese twins i are figuring is reported: ! this time from the Philippine Islands. w* Lucio and Simplicio Godino, 21-year-old Filipino “Siamese Twins," announced in Manila, the other day, their intention of marrying Natividad and Victorina Malos. sisters, despite official opposition. After marrying, they'said, they would go to the United States to enter vaudeville. A licence clerk ruling that the twins were not single because they were joined together was overruled by the Philippine Department of Justice, and they will receive licences to marry. The clerk denied them licences, saying that while in one sense they were single because unmarried, in a large sense they were not single because of the physical tie which bound them. The clerk held they were one individual with a dual personality and that their marrying two girls would result in that one individual having two wives. The twins are joined at the base of their spines.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 768, 14 September 1929, Page 20
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