MARRIED NOW
“NOT A MARRYING MAN” BREACH SUIT LONDON, Jan. 5. Harry Cousins, who is sued in the King’s Bench breach of promise action brought by Miss Constance Eleanor Potter, said in the witnessbox yesterday that he was married last December. He admitted in cross-examination that he told Miss Potter he was not a marrying man and agreed that he would describe himself now as a marrying man. Tie was 57, he said, 14 years older than Miss Potter, and he now had a temporary £4OO-a-year job. His father, who died in 1935, left him about £12,000. Had Another Fiancee Miss Potter, who lives at Shoot-up-hill, Cricklewood, N.W., claims that after a secret engagement she and Cousins were officially engaged in 1925 and he repudiated the agreement in June, 1935. He denied the secret engagement, and pleaded that the official engagement was rescinded by mutual consent. In his evidence he said that he did not meet Miss Potter in 1921, as she alleged; he was engaged to another woman from March 1921 until September, 1922. In 1935 he decided that no happiness could result from a marriage with Miss Potter and she agreed to the engagement being broken.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20184, 29 February 1940, Page 5
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