Happy Bigamy.
"I wish to give myself up for bigamy," said Benjamin Elvidge, aged twenty-nine, a labourer, on entering Bow Police Station, says the Daily Mail. "I was married about eleven years ago to Florence', Urchin, who lived at Warren "Strl'lt Canontmry. "She went away when I was working in the bacon line, sayhw she could not stand it any longer J I married again, about seven years ago to Annie Ryan, who was my first sweetheart. My first wife is still alivo, and living, I believe, at Canonbury." On this confession) Elvidge was brought up at the Thames Polire Court, and stated that he had always loved his first sweetheart, She was the mother of his five children, and he had always lived happily with her. For the last few month's some of his relatives had threatened him, and that was why he had g'iven himself up, lf e was committed for trial on bail.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 283, 3 December 1904, Page 2
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156Happy Bigamy. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 283, 3 December 1904, Page 2
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