BREACH OF PROMISE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 31 March 1925, Page 5

BREACH OF PROMISE.

PECULIAR CASE LADY DETECTIVE & MESSENGER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. A peculiar broach of promise case was heard by Judge AicGrcgor this morning, when Nireaha. Lister sued John Patrick Sheehan, mail messenger, for £250 damages. Counsel for plaintiff said that she had been employed as a shop assistant but added to her income by doing private detective work. Defendant mot her in October,. 1921. He was seeking divorce from bis wife, and obtained her insistence to collect evidence. Defendant obtained a divorce and, subsequently, saw plaintiff very frequently. They went to a jeweller’s shop and selected a diamond engagement ring. Tho defence would suggest that this was not an engagement ring, but a dress ring.

Plaintiff gave evidence that, defendant used to kiss her good-night. When the ring was selected the jeweller said, “A girl was not engaged every day.” Later the defendant showed coolness, and made appointments and did not keep them. “In Cathedral Square once he called me a black nigger and said lie would Ur and feather me, and put me out of town,” she said. The case is proceeding.