TWO MOTHERS, TWO WIVES
An Italian soldier made deaf and dumb by shell shock in the war has been claimed by two mothers and a wife after he had married another woman. Under the name of Feraaro he was cared for at a Turin hospital, and was claim*! by a wealthy widow of that name as her son. She took him from the hospital, and shortly after, despite his infirmities, he married a girl named Stampori. A few days later another woman ran up to the deaf mute in the street and said: “My dear eon, at last I have found you I” She is a Signora Romani, of Santa Pioroe. To support her claim to he the mother of the shell-shocked soldier she called on her daughter-in-law to identify her long-missing husband. So now he nae two wives as well as two mothers, and ho has asked in writing to be allowed to go back to hospital nr,til he recovers sufficiently to recall his identity.
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Evening Star, Issue 18061, 31 August 1922, Page 1
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166TWO MOTHERS, TWO WIVES Evening Star, Issue 18061, 31 August 1922, Page 1
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