WIFE’S SPLENDID HUSBAND

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 500, 23 July 1932, Page 3

WIFE’S SPLENDID HUSBAND

TRIBUTE FROM A JUDGE

I A husband’s devotion to bis | ! recently wedded wife was (lie sub. I Jed of comment at the Old Hailey, j i Loudon, recently when Laura Louise | I Tonies, aged 29, pleaded guilty to on. j 'tabling £l9O by a forged Post Office [Savings Bank warrant. It. was stated that Mrs. Tomes was | for some years clerk in charge of the Mile End Road town sub-post office,l An elderly Polish Jewess had a banking acc nnt, and, being, illiterate. placed her bank book in the custody of Mrs. Tomes. This was against the rules of the Post Office When Mrs. Tomes was married the defalcations were discovered. Mr. C. E. Tomes, a chemist, sale he was anxious to have his wife hack, j hi reply Uni the Recorder, Sir_ Ernes* i Wild, K.C., he said that Ibis incident,’ which happened before their j marriage, would make no difference [ in his regard for his wife. He was

prepared to repay the w’.u h. amount of (he sum site chtafned The Recorder postponed sentence for one month, intimating that Mrs. Tomes would probably lie liberated without any conviction being record., ed. “Yon ought In lie eternally grate-j fnl to your splendid husband: you : are a very lucky woman,” he re- 1 marked.