I read this sentence in a book I'm using for exercises:
Jener Mann war kein Dieb, und man setze ihn daher in Freiheit; sofort gab man seiner Frau die frohe Kunde seiner Unschuld.
I don't understand the case used in the bold part. Since the subject of the second phrase should be "man", I would have expected a dative instead of a nominative (so, I'd have written "seinem Frau"), because I translate as:
That man was not a thief and thus he was released; the news about his innocence was given (impersonal) to his wife.
What am I missing?