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.... .. ,-, ,w, irj^i , i ; ■'■• -A -BROTHERLY TANGLE. ' ; ' LONDON, May I.— A . message from Totnes states that a naval lieutenant Wilfred Hayes, who has been charged with, "bigamy, pleactftl m defence thai when he Teturnec^ from leave m Ireland m 191S- he-found '.that his brother, who very" mufcti resembled him, had marrifia his flanceo linger his name. Later, nt his 'ht-othefs suggestion, ;he flllect the husband's without the wife disCpyerinff him. and (afterwards .married another woman under .his ' ■ 'brc-thCT'^ name. . Hayes Avas'temanded. rrhls striinge- 'story -necajls, ' an .«xtraordfnarjr V.as?. which occurred ih : 'Manj Chester m 1916.' .A "soldier <back ! i vpty the -front, permanently incapacitated, and, with bis face mutilated by gas shells! returned to his homo, and wai/welcomed hy^his' wife. For" "several months" they lived m wedded Jlappi ness, M'lien: some old friend o' ih» Jniab aha .hapßbniKl along and declaren "Tills isi not pert." The ' wife ' thereupon . ■ Jiad her 'iflpuDts, andfc nrially • called °ih- v tlie ■■■poUcfe. \h court the 4 ' • ; imix)Bt«i i • co^fess<»d: to J having 'impersonated a • 'cobber l * whom he fought alongside m uib trenches, ; ana* 'was con< vlolea and sentenced. One l df the-Mnany women m court audibly remarkjed as sentence .we,? passpd, I'd. have known my*.BeNt.". ' • :
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15223, 22 May 1920, Page 9
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203MIXED MATRIMONY. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15223, 22 May 1920, Page 9
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