GOT RID OF HIS WIFE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 232, 1 October 1928, Page 7

GOT RID OF HIS WIFE.

Paid Her Fare To Canada, £127 Under A Deed. THEN INHERITED £60,000. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) LONDON, September 30. A story of how a husband rid himself of his wife by paying £127 for her fare to Canada and an outfit, was told at the Marylebone Police Court. Mrs. Lily Burton sued her husband for maintenance. The parties were married In 1911. The husband was unemployed in 192-5 and the wife agreed that he should go i and live with his mother while she went Ito Canada. They signed an asreement. under which the husband contracted to pay his wife's passage. The woman supported herself in Canada for 15 months. Then ill-health necessitated her return. In tlie interim the husband had inherited £<>o.oo<\ Hp threatened to shoot her and to tie up his money if she worried him. The magistrate, Mr. Halkctt, ruled that the deed was valid and d'-wissed the case. He remarked: Burton has a wife whom he liable to maintain, but he gets rid of her for £127. That is a cheap way of getting rid of a wife. I have not seen anything to equal it.