TWO JILTED MAIDENS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 153, 29 June 1901, Page 5 (Supplement)

TWO JILTED MAIDENS.

GUSHING LOVE LETTERS FROM

VERY YOUNG MEN.

Love letters were the order of the day lately in Mr Justice Ridley's court in tha King's Bench, and in th* Court of the Sheriff of London.

The letters that the King's Bench jury 'had to consider were those of Sidney H«rbert England, a clerk in the General JPoat Office, to Miss Jane Ann Grifiiths, th» daughter of a Gloucestershire farmer, Srho is a hospital nurse.

Ja the summer days of 1896 the young man, who was then 20 and a draper's a»prentice, wet the young woman at Hftucoflobe. It was a happy holiday, and Bltwr It bad passed the young man wrote to **My dear appropriated, sister" that lw did not think: that he could have Wt so- fond of her in so short a time. aometinHi afterwards they met again, and t* Wanted to be engaged at once, but the lady hesitated. By 1897, he addres*ed her as "My dearest Taffy," aud by onidsummw he had reached "My own darling Jane," with four or five crosses ■a.t the end o* the letter. In 1898 he formally proposed, and she accepted.

Then he launched out into "My very 4e*re#t Anna," and "Your ever true and •wr devoted sweetheart, Sidney," and Jlft-Bristol drapery for tbe London Post Office, There he found that he wanted to ijoncehtrate his attention for four or five >*«ra on study, and while promising to »»arry In the distant future if she waa •«« unwed, he suggested that Miss Grif■ itfca ahouid not neglect her own interWhen Miss Griffiths sued for breach ol JPOfnJse, Mr England pleaded that he *f»var did promise, or that if he did the WPUUae was mutually rescinded. But ■toe jury found for Miss Griffiths— £25 images.