BIRTHDAY GIFT.
IT LED TO DIVORCE.
BOTH PARTIES GUILTY.
A gold cigarette case was the vitalpiece of evidence which has just led a Prague Court to give a divorce to both husband and wife, on the* ground that they had both been guilty of misconduct.
The petitioner, a wealthy Prague merchant, was astonished when on hisrecent birthday his wife give him the case as a present.
For a scratch on the hinges enabled; him to identify it as one which he had given only a few weeks before to the woman friend he had been taking out in secret.
Setting a detective agency to work, he soon discovered that the girl had a. second friend, to whom she had passed on the glittering ease.
He, in turn, was not content with one sweetheart. He had courted the merchant’s wife and given her the gold ease as a proof of his affection. Finally, she, to lull any suspicions on her husband’s part, gave it to him with/ a sweet smile as “a birthday present I bought out of mj r pin-money.” The merchant filed his petition at once. “Acceptance of such a present by a wife is proof of unfaithfulness,” said his lawver.
“Giving of such a present by a husband proves just as much,” retorted hers—and the Court agreed with both.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 September 1937, Page 8
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