A MODERN BLUEBEARD.
ON TRIAL FOB. MURDER. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. i, London, Mraoh 0. At the trial of George Smith on a charge of murdering his wife, 'Mr Bodkin, K.C., stated that he had contracted I se\*ral other marriages. One woman stated that a few days after her w« J cling in September Smith took her savings, amounting to £9O, and disappeared. In another case Smith married the eighteen-year-old -daughter of parents whose consent was refused. On February 4 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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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 233, 11 March 1915, Page 2
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120A MODERN BLUEBEARD. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 233, 11 March 1915, Page 2
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