SOLD WIFE FOR £7.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5092, 23 February 1927, Page 2

SOLD WIFE FOR £7.

TRANSACTION IN DUNEDIN.

RECEIPT PRODUCED IN COURT,

DUNEDIN, February 22

It is not, often that the sale of a wife, with supporting documentary evidence, is recorded, but such a sordid transaction was revealed in the Police Court when the police told the magistrate that Edward Fitzpatrick had practically sold his wife to Allan Flyger for £7.

"Here,” said the Senior sergeant, handing the document to the Bench, “is the receipt.” The two men concerned were charged wit.h fighting. Flyger appeared with a bandaged head and in a generally battered state. The Senior Sergeant said that since Fitzpatrick had practically sold his wife to the other man he had been cadging from and blackmailing him. A’esterday he bullied Flyger, and was. the aggressor. Counsel for Flyger said that Fitzpatrick had for months neglected his wife and left her five children to the tender mercies of the other man, who maintained them.

Fitzpatrick said he was prepared to pay for his wife and children and keep them so long as she was not, living with Flyger. The magistrate (to Fitzpatrick) : There is nothing to be said in your favour. In view of this document before me the least, you say the better. Fitzpatrick was fined £5 and Flyger £2.