SELF-CONFESSED BIGAMIST.
NEW ZEALANDER AT HOME.. LONDON, February 11. Arthur Wicks was yesterday committed for trial on his own confession of bigamy. Wicks told the police that he was first married in South Africa in 1880. Later he discovered that his wife's first husband was still alive. When he heard the latter was really dead he remarried his wife. Later he went to New Zealand. He had never heard from his wife from 1007 to 1918. Wicks served with the New Zealanders in France, during the war. Believing his wife to be dead he married Miss Phyllis Dobson. Subsequently he learned that his first wife wa£ still alive. (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 36, 12 February 1925, Page 5
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