MARRIED FOR SAVINGS
MAN'S FIVE WIVES
NINE YEARS'SENTENCE
(Received July 16, 1.15 p.m.) WINNIPEG, July 15. After marrying five women for theii savings George Roediger was sentenced to nine years' imprisonment. | The police stated that Julia Eetinik, ! a widow, gave him 1000 dollars to start a store in Ontario, and then vanished. His first wife died mysteriously at St. Catherine's, and the body of the second was found in a well in the village oi Catskill, New York. There was an unsuccessful search foi the fourth wife, Christina McKenzie, who vanished at Toronto. Roediger then married Roberta Barcroft, a wealthy widow, in Vancouver in 1934. Terrorised in a locked apartment, she gave him a cheque for 50,000 dollars, but' cun« ningly signed it incorrectly so that it was refused by the bank. Roediger then disappeared.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 14, 16 July 1937, Page 10
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135MARRIED FOR SAVINGS Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 14, 16 July 1937, Page 10
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