47 YEARS WAIT FOR A LOVER.
BREACH OP PROMISE ACTION AGAINST WAR VETERAN.
New York, August; 1
Damages of £SOO for breach of promise are claimed by Miss Emma aged 67, from Mr John Wolf, aged 77, a Civil War veteran, in a suit she las brought at Paterson, New Jersey. Miss Mahoney says tfce last she saw if her fiancee was in 186 a as he was leaving for the Civil War. She never married, believing that some day the sweet eart tf her youthful days woald retnrn to claim her. Tree years ago, 47 years after her last meeting with Jim, she was overjoyei to receive a letter from Mr Wolf, who informed her that te had now retire ' from busiaess with a fortune. A correspondence ensued in which, the spinster alleges, the veterau wooed her with all t e ardonr w.ioi characterised him before the war, and finally he proposed marriage. S? e ma e all t e preparations for the ceremo y at great expense. When everything was ready Mr Wolf wrote saying that the marriage could never take place
gMiss Mahaney bases her claim on a sooie or more of love letters, many of them containing poems written to her by the septuagenarian veteran.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 2024, 13 September 1913, Page 3
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20947 YEARS WAIT FOR A LOVER. Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 2024, 13 September 1913, Page 3
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