CHEIP RIDDANCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 473, 1 October 1928, Page 13

CH EIP RIDDANCE

MAN GIVES WIFE £127 THEN INHERITS £60,000 (United I*.A.—By Telegrapn — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) LONDON, Saturday, How a husband got rid of his wife for a payment of £127 in fares and an outfit was recounted in the Marylebone Court, when Mrs. Lily liurton sued for maintenance. The parties were married in 1911. The husband in 1925, was unemployed. She agreed that he should go and live with his mother, while she went to Canada. They signed an agreement in which her husband contracted to pay her passage. She supported herself in Canada for 15 months. 111-health necessitated her return. In the interim her husband had inherited £60,000. He threatened to shoot her and tie up the money if she worried him. Magistrate Halkett ruled that the deed was valid and dismissed the case. He said: “Burton has a wife whom he is liable to maintain. He gets rid of her for £127. As a cheap wav of getting rid of a wife, I have not seen anything to equal it.”