BANKRUPT’S EXCUSE.

Grey River Argus, 1 July 1922, Page 5

BANKRUPT’S EXCUSE.

DID HIS WIFE RUIN HIM? 9 WELLINGTON, June Some remarkable were made during tin* public Examination or John Joseph Baker, of liona Bay, bankrupt. He said he had been fairly s:i •- ecssful in business, but had been handicapped through his pockets being gone through by his wife, aad a hundred pounds stolon. He had managed to get back a portion of the money, but lie had suffered another reverse by a portion of his goods being removed or mysteriously burgled. He had lost some more money. His wife had accused him of making away with goods, hut the bankrupt proved he had not so offended. Asked for an explanation of his wife’s conduct, he said she evidently wanted to get rid of him.