BOGUS DIVORCES.
Notwithstanding the ease with which divorces are legally obtained in New York state, it was ascertained some months ago in Brooklyn that two lawyers had issued trar 300 frcululerifdivorccf. This was done by forging the' signatures of the judges. District Attorney Eidgway claimed great credit for this discovery It now appears that no one is to be punished for these infamous crimes. Mr Eidgway has entered a nolle prosequi in the ease of John G. Law, one of the lawyers concerned in issuing the bogus divorces. This is said to bare done because there was no testimony, except that of an accomplice, to convict Lav. His partner, Munro Adams, was allowed to . e*s»pe. The judges (observes the Tribune) are said to have been in the habit of signing papers so carelessly that they cannot give positive testimony as to the forgery of their signatures, though there is no question as to the fraudulent charaoterjof the divorce papers. Three hundred homes broken up by bogus divorce papers, and no one punished I '. !
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Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5106, 29 May 1885, Page 2
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