WHEN HUBBY WAS ASLEEP.
If a wife opens her husband's letters' she is guilty of misdemeanour—in Austria. In a case recently tried, a wife, Frau Hermann, suspecting her husband of infidelity, took his keys out of his pocket one night when he was asleep, /unlocked his writing table, and<> opened a sealed) letter, which she found addressed to another woman. The contents were incriminating, as the letter appoiritr ed "a rendezvous, and on the strength of evidence gained in this way the wife brought an action against the other woman. The husband retaliated by prosecuting his wife for "violating the secrecy of private correspondence," a serious offence under Austrian law. The Court wans obliged to find the wife guilty, but imposed a sentence of only one week's imprisonimenit, her jealousy > justifiable as the event proved, being taken as an extenuating circumstance.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10273, 28 June 1911, Page 5
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141WHEN HUBBY WAS ASLEEP. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10273, 28 June 1911, Page 5
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