A Legal Device. , The San Francisco "Alfca" Is responsible for the story that a Nevada lawyer had as a client a man accused of murder, and that the principal witness in his favor being his wife, who was incapacitated from giving testimony by reason of her relation to him, he got the trial postponed, brought a suit for divorce on her behalf, secured it, and then triumphantly placed her in the witness-box to secure the acquittal of her husband.
FOR AUCKLAND DIRECT. fine clipper schoonei COLUMBIA, Capt. K. M'liEop,, witf leaye for the above port on MONDAY NEXT, Ist DEOEMBEB. For Freight or Passage, apply to tho MASTER, on board ; or to J. H. VAXJTIER, Agent,
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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1529, 28 November 1873, Page 31
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116Page 31 Advertisements Column 1 Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1529, 28 November 1873, Page 31
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