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maintained herself by 'letting furnished lodging", and had acquired the means of keeping herself respectably. A. few days ago it was ascertained that applicant's husband had, during the five years he was absent from his wife, married Another woman at Bristol, and he is now in Exeter gaol' on a charge of bigamy. The Mayor held that, although the husband had deserted the applicant for five years he had, by returning to hor n<r<un, and by being received by her into her house, treed himself from the charge of the permanent desertion provided by the Art. He further held, that the h..eband's being in custody of the law on a criminal chnrgp, of which he had not yet been proved to be guiUj , \s as not desertion. If, however, Bond was convicted, then his wife could obtain protection undjr the Act.
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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XV, Issue 1136, 18 May 1858, Page 3
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