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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8073, 25 August 1905, Page 5

A'strange story of tangled marriage | relations was told by a mining expert j named Thomas Poster to a New South "Wales Parliamentary Select Committee. Foster was convicted of bigamy in Sydney in December, 1902, and was sentenced to five years' imprisonment. He was released, however, after two years,. The governor of the gaol simply told him that the comptroller of prisons said he could go. Whije he was keeping an hotel at Stanmore he said a man came in one night and addressed his wife as "Mrs Vickers." He asked her what the man meant, and she then told him the story of her life. She had been married at Newcastle on Tjne to a man named Patterson, who brought her to Brisbane in 1879, and afterwards to Sydney. Later on Patterson charged her with misconduct with a man named Tarbottom,and lef fcher, returning to England. In 1884 Tarbottom married her, and he died in 18S6. Some years later she married a man named Vickers, but subsequently found that he had a wife living, and left him. Then she married Foster. After hearing this story Foster says he left_ her. Two years later he married again. It was this marriage upon which the charge of bigamy was formed. He had married twice, and although his first' wife had one or more husbands still living one of these husbands, it appeared, also had a previous wife, who was not yet deceased."