“DIVORCED” HIS WIFE
BUT SHE DTD NOT KNOW
TARIS, Dec. 14
Hercules Miotto, a 40-year-old Preach engineer, received a sixmonths’ sentence in the Paris courts yesterday. Hercules had: “Divorced” his wife without her knowledge. Hercules, a provincial, had the divorce writ, served on an obliging woman friend in Paris, who appeared in court as his wifo and ‘ ‘ confessed. ' ’ Hercules received the verdict, and then walked off with his wife’s money, £3OOO, of which, under French law, he has control. Not until Mme. Miotto, tired of her husband’s frequent absences, applied tor a divorce herself was the fraud discovered.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19240, 4 February 1937, Page 7
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