SEVEN TIMES A BRIDE.
WEDDING RINGS ROUND NECK. Having had seven husbands, Mrs. Jane Rebecca Whall, of Cosliam, a suburb of Portsmouth, has died at tho ago of 81. Latterly she had worn all her wedding rings, with her latchkeys, round her neck. Her sixth marriage, when she and her bridegroom went in a tramcar to a registrar's office, was the only one which was not a success. It transpired after the ceremony that her " husband" was already married, and ho was charged with bigamy. " Becky" appeared at tho Assizes to give evidence, and on that occasion wore her wedding rings. Mrs. Whall had lived at Cosliam 11 year, and married three times during that period. Previously slio resided at Chichester, where she was engaged in the licensed trade. Her father was at one time a publican in the Ilaymarket, London.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20229, 13 April 1929, Page 2 (Supplement)
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