STRANGE NULLITY SUIT
VICAR AND ROUMANIAN LAW
(A. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, July 29. The Rev. Aaron Suffrin, Anglican vicar at Waterlooville, near Portsmouth Central, figured in a strange nullity suit. Suffrin, a Rumanian Jew, was converted to Christianity m 1905. His English' wife, whom he married in 1906, alleges that Suffrin has a wife still living in Rumania, whom he married in 1872, when eighteen. The legitimacy of three children of the English marriage is at Suffrin gave evidence that his five brothers and' brothers-in-law forced him into the first marriage to prevent him joining the Greek Church, hut lie was divorced in 1874 under the Jewish law, though tliifc was without elfeet in Rumania. Suffrin admitted describing himself as a widower at the time of re-marriage, as he regarded a divorced man and widower as synonymous terms. The wife was only told the facts in 1912. The hearing was adjourned to enable the production of documents regarding the Rumanian law.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 10064, 31 July 1925, Page 3
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