LICENSEE AND WIDOW

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 March 1930, Page 11

LICENSEE AND WIDOW

£lOO DAMAGES AWARDED. LONDON, January 26. Mr. Henry Thomas Marriott, licensee of the County Cricket Ground Hotel, Northampton, who is well known among Third Division footballers and to county cricketers in all parts of the country, was the defendant in a breach of promise case heard in the Civil Court at Northampton Assizes yestei’day. He was ordered to pay £lOO damages to Mrs. Louisa Hussey, a

widow, who was formerly employed as resident manageress at the hotel, and for whom also judgment was given m a counter-claim for the return of a ring and a bracelet which Mr. Marriott said he had lent her. Mr. Vaughan, for Mrs. Hussey, said his client was now 52, and Mr. Marriott was. about 60. Counsel alleged that in .Tune ot 1924 a proposal of marriage was made in Mrs. Hussey’s bedroom. For live years she was nominally a paid servant, but actually, in all but the legal tie, she was Mr. Marriott’s wife. They lived together openly. Mr. Marriott was a widower, and in 1927 ho tok a ring from his late wife’s jewel box and gave it to Mrs. Hussey. She wore this openly on her engagement finger.

In May, 1929, Mr. Marriott told her to clear out. Ho accused her of bad management and insobriety, but those allegations, said counsel, were false. Tn October last year he married another woman.

Mrs. Hussey, dispalying deep emotion, said that shortly after she took the post as manageress Mr. Marriott told her he thought he had found in her a jewel. Mr. Marriott said he never promised to marry Mrs. Hussey. He lent her the ring and bracelet when .she went on holiday, because she said she had no jewellery.,