COURTSHIPS PROVE COSTLY FOR SMITH.
BREACHES OF PROMISE WITH TWO WOMEN. LONDON, December 12. “ The defendant’s achievement in figuring in a second breach of promise action creates an unenviable record,” said counsel in opening Caroline Hawker’s claim against Harold Smith, a London Post Office cleaner earning £5 a week. Counsel added that Smith courted
Hawker for ten years, and gave her f two rings, which he regained under the pretence of insuring them. He booked a room for the honeymoon at Ramsgate, but postponed the wedding. Nevertheless, he invited Hawker to accompany him to Ramsgate, but she declined. Smith, bidding her a tearful farewell, went to Victoria Station, where he met Gertrude Hichens, who accompanied him to Ramsgate. Subsequently he gave her Hawker’s rings. Hichens had brought an action for breach of promise, and secured £SO damages, which Smith had suggested Hawker should help to pay. Hawker was awarded £IOO damages, plus £3l in lieu of the rings.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17729, 26 December 1925, Page 1
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