THE DIVORCE LAW
TIES A WOMAN TO A MURDERER Special to Times. WELLINGTON, August 27. Reporting on the petition of Mary Wolfe, of Eketahuna, for an amendment of the divorce laws, the M to Z Committee strongly urged the Government to introduce during the present session such legislation as would give relief in this and similar cases. Mr. Fisher said this case was one that should have favorable consideration. The man had been imprisoned for life, and the woman could not live again with a man who had killed her two children. She should be enabled to keep clear of a man who had been proved guilty of such a crime. •Mr. Harbor said that an attempt was being made by some charitable or misguided people to get this man a pardon and give him his liberty. The woman would be in fear of her own life if her husband were liberated. Air. Buddo said the woman was a storekeeper up country, and she was doing her best to maintain herself and her other children. The Committee considered the case one of the most deserving that had ever come before it.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2171, 29 August 1907, Page 4
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191THE DIVORCE LAW Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2171, 29 August 1907, Page 4
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