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Third Wife Becomes A Legal Wife In Court
Frank J. Shepard, a New Yorker with three wives since 1915, faced court action as wife no 3 Helen Tobani Shepard remains legally his wife. He pleaded guilty to false registration and was fined fifty dollars after authorities dropped polygamy charges lacking proof of death of wife No 2’s former husband.
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Frank J. Shepard
Debonnair New Yorker
Helen Tobani Shepard
Shepard
Tobani Shepard
Charles Street
Ruth Blackford
New Jersey
Edith Walling
New York
Helen Tobani
Tobani
Boston
Station 5
Papa Tobani
Cohalan
City Registrars’ Department
Wife Number Two
Wife No. 3
Shepard No. 2
Walling
Shepard No