“PRINCE CHARMING.”

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 115, 29 April 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)

“PRINCE CHARMING.”

VILLAGE BEAUTY’S BREACH OF PROMISE SUIT.

The question of how justly to assess toe damages in a breach of promise suit has become a brming problem in New York, as the result of the action .I a ln ” er: ouncing as excessive die £2,000 awarded by a jury to Miss Henrietta French, a bewitching youn" woman from the little town of Pierre? South Dakota. The Mr. David Dbeker, a of New York, visited her, became rpm sweetheart ’’ and golden west.” Qrdour cooled, and ho married d .. On this Miss Frenck travelled 2000 miles to New YorlAuafttd sued him for £5OOO. ' No sooner had the sympathetic jufcy allowed her £2OOO than the judge declared it excessive. “Except for the T” rt naturally, arising from the breach •■promise, he sard, “not a dollar of jL^' Se -l\ as shown.” He invited ■Mefs on the question of reducing the W*?”nt Miss French’s brief on this stieject is of remarkable originality. Hie argument she lays stress on is the glamour exercised on country maidens t>y a. man frjm the great metropolis. He comes out from New York,” she points oilt. “and all the girls are flatteieu jv any attention he shows them, because his manners and clothes and ev»rrthmg about him make him, oh' so different from the men whom we orainarily meet. So from being a very commonplace man in New York he becomes out west a veritable Prince

“In due course he returns east, and forgets all about the girl whose life is ci er afterwards a daily owing to the sneers- of other girls wiiom I mice Cliarmmg ignore], and the malire of the men whom she had neglected or Ins account