LOVE-MAKING BY DEPUTY.

Manawatu Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7757, 6 July 1903, Page 4

LOVE-MAKING BY DEPUTY.

SUITOR WHOSE RELATIVES WROTE HIS LETTERS. A man may make love by proxy, but he generally has to pay the bieach of promise damage himself. So Mr Soloman Brody has discovered. He is a cabinetmaker, of Sheffield, and for the rest, a tall man, of serious aspect, thirty-four years old, who admitted in Court that he could sign his own name, that, however, being the limit of writing accomplishments. Sued by Miss Nancy Mothio, a buxom, good-looking Jewess, of St. Peter's Road, Mile End, London, Mr Brody explained to the judge :— " I told my brother to answer her letters and tell her that I could not forget my first wife. He put the flowery part in." " Did you write,' Time has swift wings. " The latter end of January will be here before we know it ?' " inquired Mr Holloway, cross-examin-ing. " No, my brother's wife wrote that," said the cabinetmaker. " Did you write : ' If the Almighty wills it, the better part of our life is before us?'" " I don't know anything about that," remarked Mr Brody after refleet'.on. "My brother wrote it." When Miss iN'ancy sent a love letter Mr Brody handed the missive to his brother or sister-in-law, and asked to reply. Altogether it was a very businesslike engagement. It lasted ten weeks, during which time the lovers saw each other three times. Within a few days of the expected union, however, Miss Mothio, received a letter addressed " Dear friend," from her lover, regretting that he must terminate the engagement. " I cannot forget my first wife. I thought I should be able to do so, and should have learned to love you, but I regret to say I find the task much too hard for me." Her counsel now reminded the jury that it wasn't often a lady had the moral courage to come into Court and bring an action of this kind, and when they did find one willing to champion the cause of her sex, he submitted they ought to extend to her their sympathy and encouragement, and should recognise the fact that she was doing her part to preserve the dignities of on r social system. ■ ■ : In answer to this eloquent assertion of high principles Mr P. B. Blackwell, on the other side, could only urge that his client had been persuaded into the engagement by Miss Mothio's relatives, and that he was a widower with three children. The damage were assessed at £50.