NINE WIVES
THEIR SAVINGS STOLEN. MAN SENT TO GAOL. NINE YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received July 16, 1.1.0 p-m.) WINNIPEG, July 15. Marrying nine women for their savings, George Roediger was sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment. Julia Retinik, a widow, gave him 1000 dollars to start a store in Ontario t but he vanished. The police state that his first wife died in mysterious 'circumstances at St. Catherine’s. The body of his second wife was found in a well at Catskill, New Y 4 ork. An unsuccessful search was made for the fourth, Christina McKenzie, who vanished in Toronto. Roediger then married Roberta Barcroft, a wealthy widow of Vancouver, in 1934. He terrorised her in a locked apartment until she gave him a cheque for 50,000 dollars, but cunningly signed it incorrectly and it was refused by the bank.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20247, 16 July 1937, Page 7
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