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BUT MARRIAGE—NO! TWO BREACH SUITS. LONDON, Dec 12. “The defendant’s achievement in figuring in a second breach of promise action creates ar? unenviable record,” said counsel in opening Caroline Hawk er’s claim against Harold Smith, a London Post Office cleaner earning £5 a week. Counsel added that Smith courted Hawker for 10 years and gave her two rings, which ho regained under the pretence of insuring thorn. He booked a room, for the honeymoon at Ramsgate, but postponed the wedding. Npverthc less, he invited Hawker to accompany him to Ramsgate, but she declined. Smith, bidding her a tearful farewell, went io 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 £5O damages, which Smith had suggested Hawker should help to pay. Hawker was awarded £lOO damages, plus £3l in lieu of the rings.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19478, 26 December 1925, Page 7
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