BROKEN ROMANCE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23489, 28 October 1939, Page 2 (Supplement)

BROKEN ROMANCE

' 'DESPICABLE GIRL" REBUKE BY MAGISTRATE SPENT HER FIANCE'S MONEY jQETAILS about the ending of a six-year romance came to light at Manchester/ when a 23-year-old girl was fined for slapping the face of a young man she was to have married a few months ago. A week before the marriage date the couple sat in their future home discussing furniture. The gifl, it was alleged, admitted she had spent £li3 which he had given her for their home. They parted. Both burned snapshots taken while they had been on holiday together. On August 5 they met again in the street, when the girl was with another man. She wished her former fiance "Many happy returns," and when ho ignored her. she slapped his face. Broke into Tears • When the girl, Minnie Darbyshire, residing in Strctford, was fined £l, and was told by the chairman, "You are a despicable girl," she broke into tears. "If it were possible to give you a good hiding, that would be the right punishment for you," added the magistrate, Mr. T. Savillc Whittle. The girl denied assaulting the man. Harold Ro.vle, 21-year-old engineer, and declared she merely went to him to wish him "Many happy returns" an<l shake his hand. Mr. Whittle: Is it truo you were courting him for six and a-half years and spent his money? "Yes," sobbed the girl. . "I've finished with women for a long time," Royle told a newspaper reporter after leaving the Court.