POWELKA'S CASE CALLED.
WIFE GRANTED A DIVORCE,
BT TELEGRAPH. OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Palmerstox North, Sunday Most people well remember the expiate of J. J. Powelka in the Manawatn distnct five-and-a-half years ago, ad his sensational disappearance from the pao ] in Wellington. Witt . view of » the marriage Mrs. Powelka applied for I divorce. At the hearing of the suit wK* t, was heard at the Supreme Court here ih e said that she was married to r> it' sne Ashhurst in 1909. and that 84 child of the marriage. I n th« «•> i 3B ° De of February, 1910, her hnJ^ 7 part her, and scion after Jot ♦ deserted was sentenced to 21 years' imnr, and She had not seen nor h^d^f P^° IlmeDt - As far as she knew h J?*?, tanc ?- the Dominion. The Judcre m j . m body knew that Powell » ever 7" found. A decree nili to U °} to , be lute id three months. V. 36 granted abso
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16099, 13 December 1915, Page 4
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158POWELKA'S CASE CALLED. New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16099, 13 December 1915, Page 4
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