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Evening Star, Issue 16908, 4 December 1918, Page 2

“ You say. madam,” said a smart K.C. to a woman in the witness-box, that tlie defendant is a sort of relative of yours. Kindly explain what yon mean by a ‘sort of relative.’ and just how you are related to tlie defendant.” “ Well, yon see, it's like this,” explained the witness, “His first wife’s cousin tuul my second husband’s first wife’s aunt married two brothers named Thompson, and they were cousins to mother’s aunt. Then, again, bis grandfather on my mother’s side and my grandfather on my mother’s side were second cousins, and" his stepfather married my husband's stepmother after his father and my mother died. And his brother William and my husband’s brother Walter married twin sisters. I’ve never figured It out just how close related we are, but I’ve alwavs looked on him as a sort of cousin 1” ■ . •