MILLIONAIRE'S TWO WIVES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 78, 1 April 1922, Page 19

MILLIONAIRE'S TWO WIVES.

Millionaires have their troubles, as is shown by the case of Mr. Thomas J. Wells, jun., who during the war was known as the "Millionaire Doughboy." He has two wives, and both of them are legal. He has offered the extra wife £24,000 if she will settle matters, as he Is applying to the American Conns for relief, but she says she wUI not take less than four times that sum. When the war came Wells became a private and went to France. On his return his wife accused him of misconduct abroad, whilst he retorted that she had been too lavish in her entertainment of officers at New York. The matter came before the Warren County Court, which granted the husband a divorce. Eight days afterwards he was married to Miss Marion Povie, a Red Cross nurse who had looked after him during an illness. They went to live in California. In the meantime the first wife was not satisfied with tbe verdict of the Warren Court, and she took the case to the Court of Appeal, which has just reversed the decision of the lower tribunal and thereby restored her to her former status of Wife No. 1. To complicate still further this matter, the first wife is threatening Wife Xo. 2 with an action for £24,000 damages for alienation of affections.