BARONESS CLAIMS £500,010.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15646, 27 June 1914, Page 2 (Supplement)

BARONESS CLAIMS £500,010.

ALLEGED BREACH OF PROMISE.

AMERICAN MANUFACTURER SUED. Two letters signed "Jim" were introduced by tho Baroness Ursula Barbara von Kalinowski, in a New York Court recently, at a private hearing of her action for £500,000 damages for alleged breach of promise against Michael J. Hurley, a wealthy manufacturer of St. Louis.

By the consent of counsel, the deposition waß taken behind closed doors. Nobody testified except the baroness and Otto Hartm&n, formerly a waiter at the Waldorf-Astoria, who was called to tell of a meeting of the baroness and Mr. Hurley.

i The baroness' story is that she met Mr. Hurley in Europe and in response to van.ous telegrams from him, followed him about the Continent on his promise to marry her. Three of tho telegrams, she says, have been lost. One of the letters introduced was addressed to her just before she and her mother left Paris for Wcisbaden, and expressed tho hope that the baroness and her mother were well, and would enjoy the sojourn at tho baths. The other, also signed "Jim," expressed regret at tho necessity of declining an invitation to luncheon.

In the complaint filed in the District Court in St. Louis the.baroness alleged that Hurley had promised to marry her when they were together in Paris, and that she had gone to her homo in Wiesbaden, Germany, to await him for the ceremony. Instead of following her there, she said, ho sent her a telegram stating "that he had gono to Rio Janeiro. Later, at his request, sho alleged, she went to London, England. He failed to appear there, she said, but instead sent her a telegram asking her to com© to America and ho would meet her in New York.

When she arrived in America, she said, Mr. Hurley did not meet her. A telegram came, however, she continues, which said that he was ill and that it was too hot in St. Louis. She finally went to St. Louis, also at his request, and found when sho got there that ho had left for parts unknown. In tho end, tho story goes on, the baroness caught up with Mr. Hurley in the Holland House, when he kissed her and gave such indications of love and affection that sho believed him when ho said that he had to go to Washington and Chicago and would be back in two weeks. The complainant says that he never came back. •