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WELLAND MAN A BIGAMIST
St. Catharines Woman His Second Affinity
His First Wife Well-known in Welland, Now Resides at the Soo.
[Welland Telegraph, 23 January 1912]
Arrested by the police on a charge of bigamy on Friday afternoon, Daniel Sayers, a man sixty-five years of age, living in the sixth ward, plead guilty to the charge when taken before the police magistrate in St. Catharines.
Sayers has a wife living at the Canadian Soo, and, according to his own admission, married another woman in St. Catharines in September. This woman has three children, one a baby four months old. She admits that she knew Sayers was married to another woman when she married him.
The arrest was made on Friday by Acting Chief of Police Laing. Sayers was taken before the local magistrate but was later taken to St. Catharines as he was married in that city to his second wife. Wifey number two is thirty years of age.
Inspector Gunton of Toronto assisted in the investigation of the conditions surrounding the case before the arrest was made.
At St. Catharines Sayers plead guilty but the magistrate remanded him for a week until evidence could be secured. The trial will be held there.
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