MUCH MARRIED MAN'S ADVENTURES.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 25, 29 January 1921, Page 15

MUCH MARRIED MAN'S ADVENTURES.

—' * ! AMAZINTJ CARnrr. OF A MOOERX iros jvss. ! In Sidney Andrews, a young man sen-! tencei for liigamy at the Old Bailey, tße ', Recorder tad to deal with a modern Don Juan. A married man. !n the space of three Tears. according to the story told Ln court, he had "married" rwo other wonWn and been enjraged to yet another two. Ana perhaps the stranjeat fpstnr< of the case! was that all Tfae woawn ne had married gave him the best of characters as a dc-' voted husband. Andrews, who presented a we-U-STOomed appearance. j>:eadei sniltr to the charge or j t>l?imy. j Detective Willey told the Court that tee prisoner marrlod his l«cal irife in 1006. Bel ■was employed as an aivocntant ln tie fitr. I Joined eh? Army In 1015. and his wife, by' whom he had two children and wiib. whom; he had lived happiiv. received the separa- j tion allowance. lie bad a good rmird ln I the Army. I In 1516 he met a Coventry lady, t ns a sinzle man. and married her the fol- ] lowing ypar. He visited her every three! months md brought t*r to live at' To Ms β-ife he professed' to be jrreatly cont-Prnod that they could not j live tAjether, as he could not get a honse. j In 1Q1!1 he pot errrplonnent with a | provision firm, for whom he was working when arrestfvi. and they were bo satisfied with brm tha-t he would have ■ cfcarjre of one of their departments. Bnt his weakness for ttie lair s< , ! was manifested even at his plare of business. I He became encased, said th« detective, to two of the girls e-mpkryed by fhe firm, and! he paid £1S to one to avoid Fued for ! breach of promise. Dnrinp all tiis tiaip he I I -was plaj-ins tile -pnrt of dntifnl hnabaiKl to I i his second "wife," and occasionally meeting: his first. In Septerr.her la=t he again noto 1 himself a wife—this tirap at VTrsz liron:- i ■ wii-b. and he was living with her at Bir|i.:lnicham when arrested. She. like tne! others, assured th-e deteTlve that his con-j '; dnot ted been above reproach. To Ijis ' second wife he eTplamed that he was I doin? accountancy work ln the provinres. I I The detective conclnied hJs remartablp' J story by savins that Andrews had held i 'some extended berth-s. ln each <rf -whicti he bat one resret. and that that the second' wife was not the mother of his children, j The Recorder sent him to prison for , rnnnths.