TUNNEY IN LEGAL BOUT
RESISTS WOMAN’S CLAIM FOR BREACH OF PROMISE TWICE PAID HER MONEY (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 9.27 a.m. NEW YORK, Monday. Gene Tunney, former heavy-weight boxing champion, has filed a general denial of Mrs. Katherine King Fog-
arty’s breach of promise charges. Simultaneously, he has made a cross complaint, charging that Mrs. Fogarty twice received a cash consideration for the purpose of preventing a renewal of the charges, such consideration on the second occasion being £6,000. Mrs. Fogarty last month filed notice of attachment of Gene’s recently-pur-chased home at Stamford, Connecticut. Plaintiff claims £IOO,OOO damages. She says Tunney proposed in 1926, a week after she was divorced from John Fogarty. Plaintiff has a daughter aged 10. She lives at Stamford, Connecticut.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19290625.2.76
Bibliographic details
Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 698, 25 June 1929, Page 9
Word Count
126TUNNEY IN LEGAL BOUT Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 698, 25 June 1929, Page 9
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in