FALSE DIVORCES
A LAWYER’S THRIVING BUSINESS
(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)
NEW YORK, Nov. 15 ' An unusual special Act by the New York legislature is being prepared for the purpose of legitimising more than a hundred offspring of re-marriages arising from false.divorces. Comparatively little is knoy/n, hut a lawyer did a thriving business Tn divorce cases and then disappeared. He had obtained divorce decrees for clients without having them appear in court, gaining a considerable reputation thereby. He nad in a hundred instances forged judges’ names to decrees so skilfully that in many cases the judges -were unable to 101 l whether or not they had granted the decrees. Many of these divorced men ami women had ye-married. Investigations lasting several years disclosed the complete activities of the lawyer. In one case the American consul in Argentine ■was recalled to face a charge of deserting his wife, but the consul proved his innocence by faked decree. Many men and women found themselves divorced without knowing anything of it.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 17 November 1922, Page 5
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