SUED BY EX-LOVER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 299, 18 December 1935, Page 17

SUED BY EX-LOVER.

STORY OF QUARREL

MAN CLAIMS RETURN OF RING.

LONDON, November 2.

A remarkable letter was read at Clerkenwell County Court, when Alice Chambury was sued by her former sweetheart, Bertram Eugene -Miller, for the return of £3 10/ which he alleged he had lent her, and an engagement ring. Miller said that he had courted the girl from June, 1034, and they became engaged at the end of the year, but the engagement lasted only four days. They had a quarrel over an accident to her brother, and she afterwards told him that her parents had refused to let her see him any more. Cross-examined by Mr. L. L. Gunn (defending), Miller agreed that after the engagement was broken off he wrote the girl a letter, in which he said: "I do not suppose I shall stand a dog's chance of going with you again, but that will not stop me writing to let you know what a dirty rotter I am for the beastly way I actcd. . . . Well, goodbye, old girl, and God bless you. May He give you all the happiness and blessing you ought to have, and not the sort you have had with me. . . . Humble Apology. "Is it too much trouble to ask for the ring I gave you? For God's sake give it back to me, or else I will go potty. "I am not writing you for pity, but you have heard of suicides, which fellows do. Well, I am not afraid of being dead that way. Please send me a, message for good luck."

Attached to the letter was a docu ment headed: "To whom it may concern," and continuing:

"I, Bert Miller, have treated Alice Chambury in a disgusting way. I humbly apologise in any way that she. may ask me. . . . There is nothing I would not do for her. It would- only be enough to repay her for the way in which she has always play 1 the game with me."

Asked by Judge Earengay why he had written in that way, Miller replied: "When you write to a girl you love you put many things into a letter which you don't mean at all."

Judge Earengay, giving judgment for the girl, said sometimes actions spoke louder than words. "If a man takes off an engagement ring and throws it at his fiancee," he added, "it seems to me that he lias there and then terminated the engagement,"