WIFE LOCKED UP FOR YEARS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LII, Issue 8628, 8 July 1924, Page 5

WIFE LOCKED UP FOR YEARS

SCHEME TO SECURE WOMAN'S FORTUNE. Pres* Assoc Bv TO. Copyright, Aitpr.—-N.Z. Cab 1. 1 As-, o. Hce .July S. 9.10 a.m. Louden. ,lu!v 7 Tin Morning Ihn’s Parss correspondent teds an ox: inordinary story i f a husband win. is alleged to. have S-onalv ; 1 iVi.rot's 1 his witV in .tTt M -«• in •* her fertnne. Hr keptInr li ckid tip lor seven years in tin room i f the Inaisc in which ho. lived, with .mother woman- h was disch s< d heft re the court ihat. the parties wc*r inarmS in l-'sU. the husband being a vonng and briefless barrister. Tin wif- was brought im a sett lenient of iTU 000 1 nines, wh: h was so ,n vested that the ennph could .uiiv bnreh tin interest. Fcnr years after the* marriage the husband persuaded Ins wile to consent to it tVrmal divorce and continue living together, i'ln* husband was rims a bio f.> soeuro control t f the property. as her agent. By 10M she was penniless, and henceforward was a charge or. her husband. She was kept, Kvkod in a small room, with a barred window. Her ~nlv ford was a plate of botiod potatoes and dry bread every two days. She- succeeded in escaping in 1920 and took refuge with her relatives, wluv ooan in umea ted with the police". 1 hanks to the law s delays, liow11,l l, tlic husband was able to prevent the hearing before the court mini now. The court. • rdejvd investigations with a view t.i criminal prosecution.

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