Seymour Pharmacy

NILS HULT

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Phone 71 Campbell River, B.C.

CAMPBELL RIVER
CONCRETE PRODUCTS

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CONCRETE BLOCKS - CULVERT PIPE
SIDEWALKS - DRAIN TILE

THE
Campbell River Florists
Mrs. Pearl Cyr, Prop.
FLOWERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS
P.O. Box 96 Phone 154
CAMPBELL RIVER B.C.

COURTENAY HOTEL

Modern Accommodation - Dining Room
Fully Licensed - Good Parking Facilities
Another Harrison-Montgomery Hotel

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COURTENAY B.C.

GEM COFFEE SHOP

HOME COOKED MEALS
SANDWICHES and SNACKS

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England Ave., Opposite Courthouse
COURTENAY, B.C.

COURTENAY CABS LTD.
— CALL 75 —

Radio Dispatched Cabs

Charter and Sightseeing Tours
Arranged

24-Hour Service Fully Insured

Phone 350

Corfield Motors Limited

Sales Service
Ford — Monarch Cars
Courtenay B.C.

STOP...

RIVERSIDE
HOTEL

Phone 300 Courtenay, B.C.

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have to be a wedding ring. So, as
Mr. and Mrs. Love they left the
church steps the following January.
But Smith was no baker, and six
months later the bakery folded up
and Mrs. Love went home to her
mother.

But the persuasive groom hastened
after his wife and together they went
to London, where Smith found his
wife employment as a domestic sery-
ant. It helped when he provided her
with some forged references. Smith
did nothing and lived on his wife's
imeagre earnings. Then he got her to
steal from her employer, and then
came her arrest. And Love dis-
appeared, figuratively and literally.

When she was free of the toils of
the law, Mrs. Love had only one
thing in mind. She’d find her husband
if it was the last thing she did, and
turn him in. It took a good many
months but she found him in the
fall of 1900, preferred charges and
Smith got two years for receiving
stolen goods—the goods he had made
his wife steal.

But what Beatrice didn’t know as
she scrubbed floors on aching knees
to keep her husband happy, was that
he had made the acquaintance of
another young woman—and married
her!

Beatrice passes out of the picture
when she departed to Canada to
start life anew.

And it didn’t take Smith long to
desert his second “wife.”

On the Prowl

However, he was still on the prowl
—for in June, 1908, he meets another
victim—a widow. He met her by acci-
dent as she walked along the sea front
of a south coast resort. After they met
a few times Smith proposed marriage.
The bride-to-be coyly said “Yes.” But
there was one formality that Smith
brought up.

“Might as well be businesslike,” he
jocularly remarked.

Before they were married they
would have to pool their resources.
How much money had she? The

widow produced a bank book showing
a credit of about $150. They went
to the bank and withdrew the money,
The widow said she never even got
her hands on it—Smith’s predatory
paw was out in front of her’s and
scooped up the cash.

Then he suggested a trip to the
White City Exhibition at Shepherd’s
Bush. After a round of the exhibits
he left her sitting on a bench while
he went to make a phone call. And
that’s the last the lady saw of her
prospective spouse—and her money.

With the widow’s money Smith
went to Bristol and started a second-
hand store. And there he met the
only woman he never attempted to
swindle or harm. She was Edith Pegler
and lived a few doors away from his
store.

Possibly he spotted her in advance,
for when she put an ad in the paper
looking for employment as a house-
keeper, Smith answered her.

She worked for Smith for a week—
one week, mark you—and then she
married Smith. Soon after they left
Bristol, and moved here and there
until a year later (it’s now the sum-
mer of 1909), they're occupying
furnished rooms in Southampton.

And while they were there, Smith
the impressionable, met another at-
tractive young woman. And under the
name of Rose he married her in
October.

It must have taken some deft
handling to keep each woman un-
aware of the other.

But Smith was equal to the occa-
sion.

He told Edith Pegler that he was
going on a business trip, which gave
him the excuse to take wife No. 2

GAVIN WOOD

QUALITY ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES
“EVERYTHING IN RECORDS”

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Phone 123

Campbell River, B.C.

* Ph. 170

Milton Russell,
stopped by police
while driving with-
out clothes across a
bridge at Portland,
Oregon, said he did
it for a bet. Police
charged him with
driving without a
driver’s licence on
him.

* Courtenay

Yard & Factory: The Bridge, Courtenay

INKSTER LUMBER
COMPANY

LUMBER DEALERS — BUILDERS’ SUPPLIES
SASH AND DOOR MANUFACTURERS

®
B.C.

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