BRIDEGROOM FOR A DEBT.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12, 15 August 1911, Page 2

BRIDEGROOM FOR A DEBT.

A law clerk in Vienna, who earned 8« id a week on which to keep himself while he pursued his university studies found himself recently in debt to bu landlady to the extent of £B. Being a man of honorable inclination! and loth to defraud the woman of l> er money, and having no resources of »M kind with which to meet the debt, 1>» offered himself to the landlady as a husband in full settlement of all he owed. The landlady, who is no longer in ib« first bloom of youth, accepted the off* and the couple wen married amid ■* rejoicings of the other lodgers the otk* morning.