An Indian- Breach of Promise.

Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 153, 29 December 1893, Page 4

An Indian- Breach of Promise.

TWO HUNDBED AND EIGHTY LOVE LETTERS. An interesting 1 broach of promise case has just been tried at Allpore, in India. Miss Lilian Lewis, an English governess, snod Lieutenant Herbert Walton, 3rd Bengal Infantry, for 10,000 ruoees, or about .£025 English money. In March last year, the lieutenant, a widower with one child, asked the governess to be his wife, and, in addition to accepting him, she, in pity for his forlorn condition, undertook the care of bis child. After a year of fervid correspondence — the-lieutenant sudden ly^sent her a telegram from a distant station cancelling the engagemeat. No letter of explanation came for seven months, and when it did come it was to the effect that his "affections now belonged to another." He had married another lady, who had money. There were no fewer than 280 letters to attest his passion. He behaved, in short, as an " ever and always true, loving, and devoted hubby.' ' In different letters he wrote : — " I am a brute for having caused yon all this pain. Try, my darling, to cost all those cruel thoughts from you, my angel, my life, my all." " They Bay yon cannot be a lady if yon are a governess to the Connews, as they don't go into society. (Yon needn't tell the C.'s). But, my darling little wifey, don't yon think I shall ever give yon np. . . . fondest and ever true love, from your own ever true, loving, and always ," Ac. " My very, very own, over true loving and always moat devoted and precious little darling wife." The lieutenant offered to compromise for 1000 rupees, but the lady declined. She was awarded 5000 rupees and costs by the Conrt

A romantic story has been brought to light by Private-Detective Dunn, of Melbourne, concerning the death of an elderly man named Edward Poore, wbioh took place on board the steamer Adelaide on a voyage to Premantle. Dunn had been personally acquainted with the deoeased tor many years past, and his story is that " Mr." Poore was no other than Sir Edward Poore, Bart., of Wiltshire, England. The deceased had been ii> the colonies for some 25 y&rs, bat was successful in oonoeajiiig hii identity to the day of his death. It was afterwards discovered from papers that he had left in Melbourne that ho was Sir Edward Poore. He was well known \n Melbourne, and at ono time owned the Armsdale Hotel and the Grace Darling Hotel \^in Elizabeth-street. He was also owner of - the Brighton Hotel, Lady Robinson's Beach, near Sydney, and teemed to have possessed considerable means. Of late years deceased went in for mining. He discovered a rich reef in West Australia, and was on his way to Melbourne for the necessary machinery at the time of his death, which was due to heart disease.