NOBS AND SNOBS
If a poor rough assaults a woman who is not hia wife m order to rob her of half a crown (atya a Home p&par), he m liable to five years' penal servitude and a flogging with the cat-o'-nine-tails But when Mr Albert Dixou, Hewitaon. stockbroker, was co.vioted the other day at Macoleafield of having violently fl igged his wife In order to compel her to give up to him £2000. left her by her father under the Married Women's Property Act, be was only sent to gaol for two months. So there is one law for the rich and another for the poor, and one law for the wife and another for the woman who Is assaulted by a man unattached.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1529, 11 April 1887, Page 3
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125NOBS AND SNOBS Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1529, 11 April 1887, Page 3
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