WIFE SOLD FOR £7.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 44, 22 February 1927, Page 3

WIFE SOLD FOR £7.

TRANSACTION IN DUNEDIN RECEIPT PRODUCED IN COURI SORDID STORY TOLD. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. It is not often that the sale of a wife, with supporting documentary evidence is recorded, but such a sordid transaction was revealed in the Police Court irher the police told the Magistrate that Edward Fitzpatrick had practically sold his wife to Allan Flyger for £7. "Here," said the Senior Sergeant handing the document to the Bench, "if the receipt." The two men concerned were charged with fighting. Flyger appeared with n bandaged head, and in a generally battered state. The Senior Sergeant said that since Fitzpatrick had practically sold his wife to the other man he had been cadging from and blackmailing him. Yesterday he bullied Flyger, and was the aggressor. Counsel for Flyger said Fitzpatrick had for months neglected his wife and left her live children to the tender mercies of the other man, who had maintained them. Fitzpatrick said he was prepared to pay for his wife and children and keep them so long as she was not living with 1' lyger. The Magistrate (to Fitzpatrick): There is nothing to be said in your fuvour. In view of this document before me, the least yon say the better. Fitzpatrick was "lined £5 and Fiver