MAN WHO SOLD WIFE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 622, 26 March 1929, Page 11

MAN WHO SOLD WIFE

MONEY TO PAY CHILD’S FUNERAL EXPENSES WOMAN’S LIFE OF MISERY

(Australian and K.Z. Press Association) Reed. 10.30 a.m. PERTH. To-day. The remarkable story of a man who sold his wife for money to bury his dead child was related in

the Children’s Court to-day. The woman took two ragged, dirty children into the Court, one ot whom she charged with being destitute. She desired to have the hoy placed in the State’s care.

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 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 life then became a drudgery and 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.