TOO MANY WIVES.
i'HE UNITED I'BKSS ASSOCIATION AUCKLAND, Jan. 27. Unusual crcuinstances wore narrated in a cane before the Police Court to-day when Ellen Georgina Perrin applied for an order for maintenance ag-unst, William Perrin. For the deto.Ko the point was raised that defendant s iirst wife was living when he wenttil rough a form of marriage with the complainant at Hawera. He then descubed himself as a widower, and stated to his second wife that his first wife hnu not been Jieard of for some wars, and ho believed her to be dead, Three .V"ars later, in November, 1893, the j nrst wife, appeared at Napier. Perrin Ijnvo her £BO provided she left New Zealand. In 1903 Perrin 'juarrelled i'm;li the complainant, and they had
| -Kit since lived together. There wc-re ; jliree children of the union, their a<*es t •'•-mg from 14 to 23 years. At Christ- ■ in inch recently Perrin produced a cer- ; ' die.ite of his first marriage, 4pr 1
Wr Cutten. S.M., said he must dismiss tho application for maintenance. '•■3% the nature of the dofj.-m-e was mic'' trpt he would not allow costs to tho defendant. ,;
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Mataura Ensign, 28 January 1914, Page 5
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190TOO MANY WIVES. Mataura Ensign, 28 January 1914, Page 5
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