ONE HUSBAND. TWO WIVES.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 280, 24 November 1921, Page 9

ONE HUSBAND. TWO WIVES.

A SYDNEY DILEMMA. THOniHT HER DEAD, iFroni Our uwn Correspondent.j SYDN'EV, November \'J. Decision wa< reserved in a strange divorce cafe i" He Sydney lourt on Wednesday lart "hen Charlee Harold lo (Jfljlic petitioned tn dissolve his marriage with Evelyn le Callic on the ground of "EgKL: , ai<l th al in IUW, while he was serving as a sailor, he was married at Port Brighton. He lived with his wife for -uni' , ym - *. and was not very liappv. Eventually she disappeared. ~ ••In 191-." he said. - "l was informed that my wife was dead, and 1 married am ">lv spoond wife is now in Vicfo°na :. He «* 1«« fir?t vif(> '» 1909 and from then until the time of her rumoured death he had not seen her. Believing her dead, he married again, and was very surprised to see her confront him in 10:20. "I thought you were dead, he told "I purposely »pread the information that 1 had died.' , *he replied. jlr. Justice .lame-- reserved his decision. A PARALLEL CASE. \ similar case came before the court on Friday when two wives appeared to claim a "husband who was not. to be found. Jessie Ann Jones and Ada Wingctt both appeared at the court and asked in one case that the marriage ho declared null and void, and in the other case that a dissolution be granted on the grounds of misconduct. Hoth pleas were granted.