BOXER GETS DIVORCE
WIFE’S ALLEGED VIOLENCE. SYDNEY, Wednesday. The professional boxer, Charles Francis Purdy, was granted a divorce to : day on the ground of constructive desertion. Purdy gave evidence that on the night of his wedding his wife threw a glass at him and inflicted a severe gash in his forehead. Five nights later he found his wife under the influence of liquor. When he remonstrated she threw crockery at him. He attended hospital on five occasions due to her violence.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 18 April 1935, Page 5
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81BOXER GETS DIVORCE Wairarapa Daily Times, 18 April 1935, Page 5
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