WOMAN WITH FIVE HUSBANDS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10967, 6 January 1912, Page 1

WOMAN WITH FIVE HUSBANDS.

CONFESSIONS AT? HER TRIAL' A lad\ whom the newspapers describe as "the champion woman bigamist ot \merica has been capluied m the person of Mrs Clara Roach, of Baltimore, a comeh women of 45. She admits marrying five husbands, and is suspected of having man? more "I should like to them all again befoie I go," she remarked to the Public Prosecutor, and when two of the five husbands responded to this invitation she took them fy both hands and expressed the hope that neither would be jealous of the other as she did not love either of them "I have alwajs believed," she exclaimed, "that somewhere in the w'orld there is a man wi+h whose spirit my spirit would harmonise T deteimined to find him, and I sup"pose, as-L must now go to gaol, that rnv search will be interrupted." ''•You knew "then," cried Mr John Roaqh, her last husband, bitterly, "that >ou were committing the crime 'of bigamy when jou married me." "No, I wasn't," retorted thef prisoner,, "because at every one of "my' marriages, when the preacher askedTif I took the man at my side as my husband, I did I not say the woids, "I wilhi" Sirs' Roach informed the* prosecutor that.she found all her five husbands "much of a muchness," with the single exception of one named Myers. She said "They were nice to, me for a httle while, and then I grewT tired of them Myers was always devoted, but even did not satisfy the longings of my heart"