SALE OF A WIFE.
SHOCKING CASE IN DUNEDIN.
DUNEDIN, February 22.
It is not often the sale of a wife, with, supporting documentary evidence, ic recorded, but such a sordid transaction. was revealed at the Police Court when the police told the Magistrate that Edward Fitzpatrick had practically sold his wife to Allan Flyger for £7.
"Here," said the senior sergeant, handing a document to the Bench, "is the receipt." The two men concerned were charged with fighting. Flyger appeared with a bandaged head and in a generally battered state. •
The senior sergeant said that since Fitzpatrick had practically sold his wife to the other man, he had been cadging from him and blackmailing him. Yesterday he bullied Flyger and was the aggressor. Counsel for Flyger said that Fitzpatrick had left his wife and five children to the tender mercies of the other man, who had maintained them.
Fitzpatrick said that he was prepared to pay for his wife and children and to keep them so long as she was not living with Flyger.
Magistrate (to Fitzpatrick): "There is nothing to be said in your favour. In view of this document before me, rhe less you say the better."
Fitzpatrick was fined £5, and Flyger £2.—(P.A.).
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Wairarapa Age, 23 February 1927, Page 5
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