CABBAGES AS BRIBE
DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS IN YUGOSLAVIA LONDON, February 2. Two Yugoslavian judges and the prosecutor in the Church Divorce Courts have been suspended by the Patriach for corruption, says a message from Belgrade. At an inquiry held by the Patriach, poor people gave evidence that, being, without money, they were forced to. take to Court pigs, hens, turkeys and cabbages as bribes for the judges. One old man said he had to give several hundredweights of cabbages as well as cream and numerous chickens before he could get his freedom. K search of the suspended officials’ homes revealed hundreds of casks, barrels and bottles of wine, while the recent divorce of a famous local hunter was recalled by the discovery in one home of numbers of valuable hareskins. The papers ini the inquiry have been forwarded to the Public Prosecutor for action in the ordinary Courts.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 63, 19 March 1935, Page 3
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