PRICE FOR HUSBAND.
WOMAN’S OFFER TO WIFE. AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received Aug. 23, 8.10 pjn. San Francisco, Aug. 22. An extraordinary offer made by a rich woman to buy another woman’s husbr/id was revealed to-day, and admitted by all the persons involved. Mrs. Edith Spreckles Wakefield, aged 39, who is divorced from a millionaire, and is the mother of three children, the eldest aged 19, offered Mrs. Rodney Kendrick, who is 24 and is dying of tuberculosis, a hundred dollars a month for the rest of her life if. she would permit Kendrick, a newspaper artist, aged 49, to live With Mrs. Wakefield. Mrs. Kendrick declares she is considering the offer. Mrs. Wakefield is planning to obtain a divorce from her present husband, who is her second. The Kendricks have a yearold baby. All the persons concerned had an amicable talk, at which the advisableness of an arrangement was conceded. Mrs. Kendrick’s attorney announces that Mrs. Wakefield will be compelled to pay his client 25,000 dollars, or whatever the court will give her, in an alienation of affections suit, before she will release her husband, and that she will oppose all divorce proceedings until this is done.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 August 1922, Page 5
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203PRICE FOR HUSBAND. Taranaki Daily News, 24 August 1922, Page 5
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