MILLIONAIRE'S ROMANCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15563, 21 March 1914, Page 2 (Supplement)

MILLIONAIRE'S ROMANCE.

SUED FOR BREACH OF PROMISE. GIRL CLAIMS £100,000 DAMAGES. A gbeat sensation has been caused throughout America by the arrest of Mr. Octavio Guinle, described as a Brazilian millionaire, who is a member of a large exporting concern, with offices in many big South American cities, and also in New York and London. Ik is alleged by Miss Monica Borden, who lives with her mother at New York, that the Brazilian promised to marry h<»r, and on the ground that Mr. Guinli intended to avoid a suit for breach of promise by sailing to Europe aboard the White Star liner Olympic, her counsel secured his detention in custody for several hours, until he had provided bail to the extent of £10,000. ' Mr. Guinle protested against his arrest as unwarranted, arbitrary, and unworthy of a country which professed to protect everyone within its jurisdiction. According to the details filed by Miss Borden, the Brazilian has been occupying a suite of rooms in New York costing £125 a month. She met him for the first time in May last, and on July 5 he represented that he could not live without her. Mr. Guinle knew she was to sail for Europe on that day with her sister Violet. Just before she started she got this letter from him: — My darling and Sweet Mona, —I am crazy. I don't know what to do without you. I have been crying since you left mo alone without a soul to console me. You are the only woman I ever loved all my life. lam willing to do anything for you. Come to me, and I am sure I can make you happy. You are my love, my soul, my life. I adore you."" Miss Borden remained abroad for only six days, but these were filled with cables and wireless messages from Mr. Guinle. )TA'iss Borden says in her complaint: "3 returned on tho earnest solicitation of the defendant." On her return to New York Mr. Guinle was on the pier to meet her, I and showed her many marked attentions. About this time, she says, he wrote to her "I could not live without your dear face and wonderful personality." Miss Borden went with Mr. Guinle to a Roman Catholic Church to arrange for the marriage, and on January 29 Guinle said he could not marry her because his mother objected, but that he would "always be her friend." Hi farewell note read: — "Adieu, I love you. Millions and millions of kisses. Good-bye." One reason why Miss Borden thought Guinle was going to sail away was because a short time ago hp sent her all the cooking utensils he kept in his expensive rooms in Ansonia. Miss Borden asks for £100,000 damages, and says Mr. Guinle is worth £12,500,000. Miss Borden tells in her complaint how liberal Guinle promised, during his courtship, to be after marriage. They had expected to go to Paris to live, and she was to have £10,000 a year for housekeeping expenses. She also expected to wear jewellery befitting the wife of a Brazilian millionaire.