BOUGHT A WIFE FOR £25.
WANTED INSTALMENT SYSTEM. An Englishman, Paul Cox, who bought a wife for £25 at Zagreb, Jugoslavia, and wanted to pay by instalments, has been murdered. The wife of a Croatian friend had fallen in love with him, and after a time he succumbed to her charms. When the husband, an older man, discovered them together, Cox offered him £25 for his wife. The husband agreed, and the younger man took his “purchase” home. But next day, when the money was not forthcoming, the husband became angry. Finding the lovers in a cafe, he demanded the money at once. Cox offered £5 down, the remainder by instalments. In reply he received a blow on the head with a chair which cracked his skull Grief-stricken, the wife drank poison.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3442, 12 March 1932, Page 3
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