WIFE SOLD, RECEIPT GIVEN
[Per Press Association.] DUNEDIN, Feb. 22'. It is not- often that the- sale of a wife, with supporting documentary evidence is recorded, but such a sordid transaction was revealed .at the Police Court, when the police told the Magistrate that Edward Fitzpatrick had practically sold his wife to Allan Flyger for £7. “Here,” said the Senior-Sergeant (handing the document to the Bench) “is the receipt.” The two men concerned were charged with fighting.. Flyger appeared with a bandaged head and in a generally battered state. • The Senior-Sergeant said that, since Fitzpatrick had practically sold his wife to .the other man he had been cadging from and blackmailing him. Yesterday he bullied Flyger and was the aggressor. . Counsel for Flygfer said that Fitzpatrick had for months left his wife and five children to the tender mercies of the other man, who had maintained them. Fitzpatrick said he was prepared to pay for his wife and children and keep them so long as she was not living with Flyger. . The Magistrate to Fitzpatrick: There, is nothing to be said in your favour. In view of this document before me, the least you say the better. Fitzpatrick was fined £5 and Flyger £2. ' ' V
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Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3540, 23 February 1927, Page 11
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205WIFE SOLD, RECEIPT GIVEN Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3540, 23 February 1927, Page 11
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