BIGAMY COMEDY
TWO “WIVES,” ONE HOLIDAY. Zdenek Pivrnec, a 29-year-old unemployed clerk, travelled from Prague to Yugoslavia with two wives and families on the same train. Neither wife had any idea of the other’s existence until they reached their >destination, when one' caught sight of her husband buying chocolate from a slot machine for the child of the other wife.
The result was a. trial for bigamy and fraud at Prague. During the case it was disclosed that Pivrnec had gone through the marriage ceremony a second time with Jana Stankova, a young woman with a large sum of money in her own right, merely to secure most of that money for the support of his first wife and their child.
He was out of work, all his savings had gone, and he was desperate. For several months he managed to live with both his families. Each wife believed him to be a commercial traveller, which explained his frequent absences from home. But his attempt to take them both for a holiday at the same time proved too audacious.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 May 1935, Page 5
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