FAKED DIVORCES.
AMERICAN LAWYER’S FORGERIES. LEGISLATION NEEDED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received Nov. 16. 11.5 p.m. New York, Nov. 15. An unusual special Act of the New York Legislature is being prepared for the purpose of legitimising more than one hundred offspring of re-marriages arising from false divorces. A comparatively little known lawyer did a thriving business in divorce cases and then disappeared. He had obtained divorce decrees for clients without having them appear in court, gaining a considerable reputation thereby. He had, in a hundred instances, forged the judge's name to decrees so skilfully that in many cases the judges were unable to tell whether or not they had granteu the decrees. Many of these divorced men and women had re-married. An investigation, lasting several years, disclosed the complete activities of the lawyer. In one case an American Consul in the Argentine was recalled to face a charge of deserting his wife, but the Consul proved his innocence by producing a. faked decree. Many men and women fbnnd themselves divorced without knowing of it.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 November 1922, Page 5
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175FAKED DIVORCES. Taranaki Daily News, 17 November 1922, Page 5
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