WITH TWO HUSBANDS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3336, 4 September 1917, Page 1

WITH TWO HUSBANDS.

FIRST ONE FAILS TO SECURE ' " ' DIVORCE.

Now York

Mrs Mary Timchik has the distinction of being the legal wife of two men. Her position has been fixed for her by Mr Justice Greenbaum refusing a divorce to George Timchik, her first husband, who named his Wife's second husband as co-respondent. Air and Mrs Timchik married in 190G and separated in 1908. Seven years later Mrs Timchik made a widespread search for her husband,' but without success. Believing him dead she remarried. Then Mr Timchik reappeared, and brought his suit for divorce, "Where one enters into a second marriage," said Mr Justice Groenbr.um, "after an absence of five consecutive years of the husband or wifo, .'if; the case may be. in good faith and in the belief that the former spouso is dead, the second marriage is lawful." The judge stated that any of the three persons may bring a suit for annulment of the second marriage, which, if granted, would restore the woman as the wife of her first husband. Meanwhile the second marriage must be considered in force and tho first one in abeyance. [Tn Now Zealand the reappearance of a vanished husband makes the second marriage of his wife null and void. Tennyson's poem of "Enoch Arden," in which the returned husband hid his identity in order that li's wife's second marriage! should not bo upset, is based on bigamy.J