A DOUBLE LIFE
Australian Press Association.
(IReceived 2Sth January, 8 a.m.)
LONDON, 26th January. Re warkable facts of a Manchester h'sh s. slesman's double life were revealed in a i yill dispute in the Chancery Division. Deceased, left a total estate of £856" to "my wife Eliza," whom he mai'i'ioi'l in 1924. His real wife, whom he mar vied in 1889, claimed, the property.
Mr. Justice Eve remarked that it was an extra ordinary feature that the man lived wit h both women to the time of his death in 1928.
Counsel for the second wife: "And he seems to itove visited a third."
Mr. Justice Eve said that the testator was an atn»rous gentleman. He decided that .though the deceased had bigamously parried the second woman and divided. i'sis 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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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 22, 28 January 1929, Page 9
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154A DOUBLE LIFE Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 22, 28 January 1929, Page 9
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