WIFE SOLD FOR £7.

Grey River Argus, 23 February 1927, Page 5

WIFE SOLD FOR £7.

DUNT-DIN, r,a,. ijl. It is not often that the sale nf a wife, with supporting documentary

evidence, is recorded, but such a sordid transaction reached the Police Court, when the police told the Magistrate that Edward Fitzpatrick hod practically sold his wife to Allan ITyger for £7.

Here, said the Senior-Sergeant (handing a document to the Bench), is 1 he • receipt, Thcv-two mon concerned were charge I with fighting. One, Flyger appeared L With a bandaged head and in a general* lv battered state.

The Senior-Sergeant said that since Fitzpatrick had practically sold his wife to the othir man, he had been cadging frpm and blackmailing him. Yesterday he bullied Flyger and was the aggressor. Counsel for Flyger said that Fitzpatrick had for months neglected the wife and left her five children to the lender mercies of the other man who had maintained them. Fitzpatrick said that he was pre I pared to pay for the wife and children, nd keep them so long as she was not living with Flyger. The Magistrate (to iFtzgorald) There is nothing to he said in your fpyour, in view of this document before me. The least yon say the better. Fitzpatrick wa> fiio d £5 and llyge* £2.