DEPTHS OF POVERTY

Evening Star, Issue 20134, 26 March 1929, Page 8

DEPTHS OF POVERTY

WIFE SOLD Fan iOMEY TO BURY DEAD CHILD Press Association—By Telegraph —Copyright PERTH, March 26. (Received March 26, at'lo.3o a.m.) A remarkable story of a man who sold his wife for money to bury a dead i child was related in the Children’s j Court. A woman took two ragged and I dirty children into the court. One (a 1 boy) she desired to have placed in the care of the State. She told of a life of poverty with her husband, till four years ago. One boy then took ill and died. They had no money to pay the funeral expenses, so at the husband’s , suggestion she was sold to a man named Henry George, whose payment : amounted to the funeral expenses. Her j life then became a drudgery and a misery until he committed suicide two years later. For the last two years she had struggled on with two children of the illicit union. She was now working as a domestic. The court granted the order sought.