BREACHES OF PROMISE
A CLEANER’S ROMANCES COURTSHIPS PROVE COSTLY. LONDON, Dee. 12. “Tho defendant’s achievement in figuring in tho second breah of promise action creates an unenviable record,” said counsel in opening Carolina Hawker’s claim against Harold, Smith, a London Post Office cleaned earning £5 a week. Counsel (added that Smith courted Hawker for ten years and gave her two rings, which he regained under the pretence of insuring them. He booked a. room for tho honeymoon at Ramsgate, but postponed the wedding Nevertheless, ho invited Hawker to no* company him to Ramsgate, but she de* cl in ed. Smith, bidding her a tearful fare, •well, went to Victoria Station, wherfl ho met Gertrude Richens, who hccomn paniod him to Ramsgate. Subsequent* ly ho gave her Hawker’s rings. Hichenl had brought, an action for breach of i promise, ami secured £59 1 which Smith had suggested Hawker should help tn pay. Hawker was (awarded £199 ’ plus £3l in lieu of tho rings. '
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19478, 23 December 1925, Page 8
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162BREACHES OF PROMISE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19478, 23 December 1925, Page 8
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