EXTRAORDINARY BIGAMY CASE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2088, 7 September 1885, Page 2

EXTRAORDINARY BIGAMY CASE.

George Humphries and his w jjgsaria, aged respectively forty-one and,TOßy-two years, keep a common lodging-house in . oiio of the slums, lo? some time past a navvy, employed 011 the new Scarborough and Whitby Railway line, ha« lodged at the house, and become very friendly with Mrs Humphries, and one morning they appeared before the registrar and were married by special license. The police having received information of the affair, procured a warrant, and Detective Inspector Johnson apprehended the woman, When he entered the house Humphries was seated on the knee hew husband, pinning a flower in his coat. In the meantime her first husband was on his knees in the same room "clearing up" the fireside, apparently unconcerned at what had taken place. The woman.wia ■' taken to the police office, and the affair' having got wind, the neighbours assembled in great force, yelling and hooting, beating pan lids, blowing tin whistles, and. otherwise annoying the two men who were in the house. Ultimately the new husband became so exasperated tint he, rushed into the street, and waß shortly afterwards locked up for creatiug a dig-, turbance,—London Telegraph.