MUCH-MARRIED MAN.
(By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) WINNIPEG, July 15. Marrying nine women for their savings, George Roediger was sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment. Julia Retinik, a widow, gave him 1,000 dollars to start a store in Ontario but he vanished. The police state that his first wife died in mysterious circumstances at St. Catherine’s and the body of the.second was found in a well at Catskill, New York. An unsuccessful search was made for the fourth, Christina McKenzie, who vanished at Toronto. Roediger then married Roberta Barcroft, a wealthy widow, at Vancouver in 1934. He terrorised her in a locked apartment until she gave him a cheque for 50,000 dollars, but she cunningly signed it incorrectly and it was refused iby the bank. Roediger then disappeared.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 July 1937, Page 8
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