BIGGS TRAGEDY
H USBAND’,S STATEMENT, (Australian Press Association) (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Dec. 6. William Biggs, whose wife was found drowned off St. Kilda, on Nov. 18th. told the police there has been religious differences between himself and his wife. She was an unbeliever. It was one of his beliefs, as a member of the Plymouth Brethren, that a wife could leave her husband, if one was a believer and the other an unbeliever He however thought his wife would follow him to New Zealand. He declared she should have possessed £lO sterling, also a wristlet watch. The police think the £lO in the handbag may be in the sea and are taking steps to drag the Bay in the vicinity of the spot where .tnc bodv was discovered.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1929, Page 1
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