A SOLOMON WANTED.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1883, 8 January 1885, Page 2

A SOLOMON WANTED.

An extraordidary case was tried at the Geraldtown (Queensland). Police Court a few weeks ago. The story, as told in (Jourfc, was as follows:—Two sisters (Margaret Selina and Eliza Jane) both claim to have been married by ihe same parson, in the same church, in the same town, on the same day of the same year, and to the same man—the defendant in the case; and each sister declares that the other assisted as her bridesmaid during the ceiemohy. But to disturb the sameness of the foregoing proceedings, the two'claimants can only ; produce one marriage certificate bet-' ween them, and it, unfortunately for El za Jane is correctly drawn out in Jherelder- sisteVs-name; but?"the formet' adroitly fries'--to-overcomlithis slight diffidultf'tfi'her wedded(l) life' .by tbW,-as' Bhe>was;.\inde ; r age on"the"date"of :: her"ra»rnage three' years ago, she adopted Margaret SelinaV name for the occasion tho register being.sigtjedaccordingly,-.and; that .the fact of Margaret Selina having pisiess--ioaofthe certificate, is accounted for 'by. her,. {Margaret}; jhaying obtained' i& : ftsm; flia'Jane io ,; lilence some aspersions >%hich Were '.'being' made in. .their, neighbourhood against W latter" si'steVfiharacter,; |he said:, dpcume'nV not Mlyify ;been'-returned' tO'thc; Original: fflentl. or is-afflicted withaisa&weaknesi.xif Jtie'mory,as she has deelawd to MbefichV inrtlie >aine- breath tlint, ;a ' tll °J!g h :,? ll <) >hen i ßbe' -what- year-;sj}e}..Wf» •sisters have borne .children 'to-tU'e very' much married'defen^it;^h6:fi'upportß' : the claiihs of Eliza';J>nb,.notwithstaud / : ing the marriage: litfes produced by her sister, and he'igiiW-the latter ashiswite, and.refuses: her maintenance. The Benoh, not being-able in these days to exercise the summary jurisdic-. tion of King,Splomon.in,the"case of the two" would-be mothers -of. .the same child, allowed Margaret Spina's appeal for support, towards wlljcb the defendant was ordered to pay £\ per week or fifty-two weeks under heavy bond,