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Show WAKES UP TO FIND SELF WITH 2 WIVES Man Remembers Nothing of Second Marriage. Kansas City, Mo. Liquor, according to Peter Van Diest, thirty-five, who awakened in the police holdover one night recently to discover that he was the husband of two wives, causes a man to do some peculiar things. Van Diest was arrested wiien wife No. 1, Mrs. Velnia Diest, Kansas City, Kan., traced him there after lie had been missing from home since the Sunday Sun-day before. The first wife also discovered during dur-ing her search that her husband had i- acquired a second wife the day after his disappearance, without obtaining a divorce. The twice married man was In a repentant mood after his arrest and during the time of his arraignment in the justice court on a charge of bigamy. big-amy. News to Him. "That second marriage is sure news to me," he told a detective. "I left home Sunday to take a motor car ride and I met one of the fellows. He suggested sug-gested a little drink and I took one. Of course that called for another and I guess I must have gotten pretty drunk, because the next thing I re- member was waking up here three days later. "What news some policeman told me I had two wives," he moaned. "Lord, it's hard enough to care for one the way that times are. "I was sure there was something wrong, because I could remember only one wife, Velma." Mrs. Fern Wells, wife No. 2, told police that Van Dies apparently had been drinking when he called at her home Sunday and began making love to her. However, she didn't believe, she said, that he was in such a condition con-dition that he didn't know what he was doing. Mrs. Wells said she met Van Diest once before, but had never kept company com-pany with him. When he called at her home he painted such a glowing picture pic-ture of what they could accomplish together to-gether as man and wife that she agreed to marry him, she said. She said that the difficult time she had to earn a living for herself and smirtl daughter had prompted her to accept the proposals. Big Job Nonexistent. The fact he told her he had a wonderful won-derful job, paying a huge salary, awaiting him in Arizona also Influenced Influ-enced her decision, she admitted. Van Diest, according to Mrs. Wells, awoke the day after their marriage, . borrowed $5 from her with which he planned to hire a taxi to take him to his last place of employment to obtain money to take his bride and stepdaughter step-daughter on their honeymoon to Denver. Den-ver. It was during his absence with the borrowed money that the first wife appeared. Mrs. Van Diest was in an unfriendly mood when she conferred with detectives. detec-tives. Mrs. Wells said that she would stand by her husband, despite the' fact that she is wife No. 2, acquired illegally. |