WIFE SOLD FOR A SHILLING
The Austrian police have just brought to light, In the heart of Europe, an-in-stance, of the custom, common among primitive people,, of selling wives (according to the Vienna correspondent of tho "Sunday Times")- Johann Holzleitner, a shoemaker, in Ricd, a village in the Inn Valley, finding tho bonds of -marriage, irksome after some years, sold his wife to a friend for a shilling, andflagrced to pay.part of her living expenses. Anna HolzlcitncV, tho wife, did not approve of this way of solving the problem, and started a lively discussion, in which the gendarmerie had to. be fetched.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 144, 16 December 1930, Page 4
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102WIFE SOLD FOR A SHILLING Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 144, 16 December 1930, Page 4
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