"AN OLD FEIBND."
SEQUEL TO THE WA6STAFFE CASE. AN ANNUITY.
UNDER THREATS OF EXPOSURE. By Telepraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received November 6, 9 a.m.) LONDQN, sfch November. Mrs. Wagstaffe resisted an action brought by Mrs. Lloyd, an old friend, to recover arrears of an annuity promised tinder threats of exposure in regard to James Poole Wagstaffe's first marriage. The jury foun<3b that it was a blackmailing agreement, and gave a verdict for defendant. Sirs. Wagstaffe, as she is called, entered into a bigamous marriage with James Poole Wagstaffe, a Bedfordshire landowner, who, dying, left her £180,000. She was persecuted and threatened by disappointed relatives, and in desperation surrendered to the police, and confessed that she had been guilty of bigamy, adding that Wagstaffe knew she was a married womari when he suggested matrimony to her. Her original husband, a medical student, had deserted her. She was found guilty, but received only a nominal sentence. The relatives of Wagstaffe then tried to 'upset the will, but without success.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 111, 6 November 1908, Page 7
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