EQUAL TO SOLOMON.
TORONTO'S "WOMAN JUSTICE. VANCOUVER, Tuesday. Solomon never had a harder domestic tangle to unravel than Toronto's famous woman magistrate, Mrs. Margaret Patterson, when she decided the case of Oeorge Everingham, who was charged with bigamy.
Everingham, a soldier who went over<eas in 1016, was called one morning before bis colonel, who read to him a cablegram announcing the death of his wife in Canada.
"Wife dead," is the entry in Everngham's notebook.
Within a year he married again, and now has a daughter. With his new family, he arrived recently in Toronto, where he -was confronted by his first wife, who charged him with bigamy. The magistrate decided that false official information got Everingham into trouble, and allowed him his freedom. Everingham will attempt to obtain a divorce from his first wife. _^
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 238, 5 October 1923, Page 5
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