ABSCONDING DEBTOR.
FOILED IN THE ATTEMPT,
WIFE AND CHILD DESERTED,
(Received 9.5 a.m.)
LONDON, August 22
How a leading Labourite, financially embarrassed, deserted his wife and child and pretended to commit suicide and then attempted to abscond with e married woman to Australia, was related during the bankruptcy examination of William Jakeman, an exLabour member of the Dudley Council.
Jakeman admitted borrowing £IO<JU, which he lost in building houses. When convinced of his losses he placed a cjuaiitity of clothing on the river bank at Worcester and then booked passages to Australia for himself and a woman as man and wife, but was arrested on the eve of the steamer's departure. — A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 23 August 1924, Page 5
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