DEBTOR WITH £20,000 WIFE
TOLD TO ASK HER FOR MONEY A man who said his wife had a fortune of £20,000 appeared before Judge Crawford at Southend County Court, Essex, as a judgment debtor for £2O. He was Owen Williams, of Cliveden Road. Thorpe Bay, and he said he was unable to pay owing to unemployment and lack of means. The rent of his house, he added, was £4 a week. Judge Crawford said he was luck> to have a wife with £20,000. Most wives spent their husband s monej , instead of Pr He d thouglit it was a perfect scandal that a man whose wife had such a sum of money should have the audacity to stand ‘up in court and refuse to PJJ and plead unemployment as an "If you asked your wife foi the money- she would let you hay e n. added the Judge, and Williams promised to ask for it. , t The Judge added that be could po. commit Williams because ~ u > ncd. money, and the case was adjou.n
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 553, 4 January 1929, Page 11
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174DEBTOR WITH £20,000 WIFE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 553, 4 January 1929, Page 11
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