BARONESS CLAIMS £500,000.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13430, 11 July 1914, Page 9

BARONESS CLAIMS £500,000.

BREACH ftp PROMISE ACTION. ' LONDON, May 25. £500,000 is the record claim for damages for. breach of promise brought by Baroness Barbara Ursula Kalinowski, of Wiesbaden, against Mr Mitchell J. Hurley, a millionaire railway contractor, of St. Louis. / . v The Baroness details her claim as follows: £3000 expended m '.travelling through Europo and the United States m search of Mr Hurley after he had nroposed marriage to her m Paris on Tuly 20. 1912; £5000 trousseau, £2000 for clothing, £5000 hotel bills, £5000 incidental expenses, £480,000 wounded reelings. The baroness' statement of claim reads like. an account of a prolonged game of hide-and-seek. She alleges that, the proposal of marriage was made m- the presence her mother, and brother. After jiving an elaborate banquet to her friends she returned to Wiesbaden, where she was* amazed to receive a letter from the prospective bridegroom' stating that he wais going to Rio Janeiro, nnd- promising that his absence should be brief.In April of the following- year, the plaintiff states, she received a telegram tvom the defendant, dated St. Louis m which -ac asked- her to Wet him 1 in'Lonfton. She jonrneyod" to London on May 1, only io find- another cablegram iri<tnictin.er hor to meat him m New York She landed m Now York and found a telegram from her lover m which he informed her that bo was ill and .that it, was "tort hot m St. Louis." v Returning to New York she found Mr Hurley, . v bo "kissM me and m many ways indicated viis lo\sc # and ■ affection." After their ,meetiniT, however, Mr Hnrley excused himself by stating that he •vas obhgod to gn to Washington and (_Jiicago, but would return m 14 days He never returned. The baroness declares that owing to his behavior she! was prevented from marrying a man of her own class 'm Germany. "I have been held up," she complains, "to scorn nnd ridicule as a jilted woman chasine n man nver two Continents." Mr Hurley's reply to tho suit is a the plaintiff tg^^hpjs^aase.