"A LIAR AND CAD"

Evening Post, Issue 87, 9 October 1936, Page 7

"A LIAR AND CAD"

JUDGE ON GIRL'S ESCAPE

Judge Frankland, at Sheffield County Court, recently congratulated a shorthand-typist on her broken engagement He iaid she had had "• fortunate escape," and called her exnance a "liar and a cad," reports the. "Daily Telegraph." ; . Jennie Hall, 24, of Sheffield, claimed from William Henry Bruckshaw, jun., 26, of 'Stockport," £25,' alleged to' have been handed to Bruckshaw for the purpose of buying furniture during the 'engagement;"'' She \was' the full amount claimed, with; costs. . For Miss Hall it'wasistatedjthat she and Bruckshaw became' engaged i« June, 1934, and arranged tentatively to be married at Christmas; last year. The weddingdid pot,take'tplaee.'and in' February' she received" a ;letter>lrom Bruckshaw saying: "" .^. "I was given a full examination by the doctortoisee if liWasfltfor work, and instead he found something wrong that even he did hot know about; till then, and that: was :som*e" kind o* disease of the spine which he said, will make me a crippje in a few ■years." ■ ■■<■• •■';.- *:-< '■'■» :<-'■•■. ''•■;:■:• '•■'t-.: ■ ',' Miss Hall's father then went to the ;> doctor, and later told Bruckshaw toat the doctor had denied' making the statement"refererd to'in t th&letter. When Bruckshaw ; saw, Miss, Hall subsequently she could get.no satisfactory explanation ;frbm him, and she' returned the engagement ring; fo him..' ■ In evidence, .Bruckshaw; :,^aid. that, because he, was; worried abbuthis'.condition, he savsr a doctor, whose, opinion was that- he would rbec&nei- a'tcdgple. About a Kfortnightfafte^jhe' >liM^ sent the letter, he siaw? his mind'at;eake.'.;/,;/i^.h-.v.'X'/-'j:.j-.: ;..r<' Judge Frankland 'said: yvln^ey-ery single part where his story, disagrees with that told by.the plaintiff, I'refuse to accept a word.that thfe'youiig;nian. Jhas.s'aid."' ■"" "" ' ' "... •

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