MATRIMONIAL TANGLE.
EX-NEW ZEALAND SOLDIER. INADVERTENT BIGAMIST. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 9.5 p.m.) LONDON. Feb. 10. Arthur Wicks was to-day committed for trial on his own confession of bigamy. Wicks told tho police ho was first married in South Africa in 1880. Later he discovered that his wife's first husband was still alive. When ho heard the latter was really dead he remarried his wife. Later he went to New Zealand. He had never heard from his wife from 1907 to 1918. Wicks served with the New Zealanders in Franco during the war. Believing his wifo to be dead he married Miss Phyllis Dobson. Subsequently he learned that his first wife was still alive,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18941, 12 February 1925, Page 9
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116MATRIMONIAL TANGLE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18941, 12 February 1925, Page 9
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