A DOUBLE LIFE
REVELATION IN A WILL DISPUTE Australian Press Association. (Rec. January 27, 5.5 p.m.) London, January 26. Remarkable facts of a Manchester fish salesman's double life were revealed in a will dispute in the Chancery Division. Deceased left a total estate of £SS6 to “my wife Eliza,” whom he married in 1924. His real wife, whom he married in 1889, claimed the property. Mr. Justice Eye remarked that it was an extraordinary, feature that the man lived with both women to the time of his death in 1928. .: Counsel for the second wife: “And he seems to lidve visited a third.” Mr. Justice Eve said he was an amorous gentleman, and decided that though he.had bigamously married the second woman and divided his' life between the two, when he left the whole of his possessions to his wife it must be held to mean his real wife.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 105, 28 January 1929, Page 6
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149A DOUBLE LIFE Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 105, 28 January 1929, Page 6
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