A WIFE’S PURSE
« “WORTHLESS” CHEQUES CASE. PARIS, February 10. . A woman who demands that her husband should support her has caused him to be prosecuted in rather bewildering circumstances. He was charged with having issued cheques without, having sufficient money in the bank to meet them. Divorce proceedings are in progress between the two, and the wife has taken legal steps to block her husband’s banking accounts pending the Court’s decision. After leaving home she continued to receive regular allowances in the form of cheques from her husband. But, in view of the embargo she had imposed, the cheques could not bo cashed . I She had only Io lift the embargo by a word or a signature in order to draw a. good deal of money. But this she would not do. Iler husband, although he has plenty of money to his credit, has now been sentenced to a month's imprisonment for Hie offence of issuing worthless cheques. 3’he law on (he subject, the magistrates remarked, had to be applied, but they tempered justice with mercy by giving the defendant the benefit of the First Offenders law. tie therefore left the court a, free man—.uvc only for the bonds of mu Lrimony,
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 April 1933, Page 4
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