The Archive · 1936

Wife Told to Support Workless Husband

New York, May 15.

Another instance of the old adage that "it's the woman who pays and pays" was afforded in the Court of Domestic Relations here to-day.

Judge Jacob Panken ordered Mrs. George Picken, proprietor of 'a thriving business, to pay $5.75 week for the stipport of her Unemployed husband.

News of the decision was loudly cheered onthe well-known "Alimony Row" in the Tombs prison, where a large number of husbands are serving time for refusal to pay their wives alimony—United Press, Solicitor-General, 'Sir Donald Somer-vell, in reply to a question to-day, Stated that' the total, cost to publ funds of the recent prosecution of a peer before the House of Lords was '£600, It was this case which gave rise to the bill—Reuter,

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