LOVE ORDEAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15169, 7 December 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)

LOVE ORDEAL.

BRACELET SOLDERED ON , WRIST. Damages to ' the amount of : .iSCW ; ?**=; i ,' alleged breach of promise of J^'#;.^V. ; ff claimed in an action in the '•' EdmbiUW '■> Court of Session by Mary Maftaaw? ag« . 20, against Stephen Fairweather MiKWll, 29 years, of age, bo.th of Aberdeen. ' r: _ f . Mies Mortimer states that she me* »}*■ - ; : Mitchell at a dance in l r ebru^>}+°~\'";',* Thereafter he courted her with a vie*; ** marriage. Ho sent her the- most -endear' v; ing love-letters. In September, 1911/ , gave him a bracelet, and he wrote:' * ■.:;; nave had your bracelet fastened -on'iny - wrist, never to be removed. It was ratner : ; painful when they turned the solderMg.irott < on it, but it was worth it." . ' In October, 1911, they became engaged, ,v and subsequently Mr. Mitchell gavelet * .-,,■ diamond ring. The marriage was toia*» ; place in August, 1912, and the honeymoon was to be. spent in Switzerland. About - May, 1912, Mr. Mitchell appeared to bo less attached to her, and on the 3Ctb « that month, without any justification,. he '■•; intimated to her that the engagement was ;: "off." She saw him that evening, but, he was obdurate, and she was driven home.-.. in a hysterical condition, and had to remain in bed for a week. She states «ha* the defendant's income is not less than , £400 from his business, exclusive of a pri- , vate income. '.'.'' .•'.'•■; . jM Mr. Mitchell, who denies the. breach of; ; promise, pleads that the damages claim . are excessive, and explains that without prejudice he had offered Miss Mortimer p £100 before the action was raised in satis--.| faction of any claim which she might con*.ft ceive that she had against him. :'"\ He says that from an early date in'-thwffl acquaintanceship Miss Mortimer wrote let* M ters to him which chiefly consisted of trivial personal tattle, mingled with. extra* yagant expressions of endearment couched.:! in gushing and exuberant terms. Ho "l* . some degree replied to her in kind."- ,"■;>,? ■ ; ..-KI < «i ——— ***mmm*mmmmmm ■ ■.:. ':r : »;Ss issssr. ! S ~ . s-jsßm .■■..■-. M