Courtship of Twenty-Seven Years.
’’Happy the wooing that’s not long adoing.” For twenty-seven years Bridget Coyne and Austin Thynne were engaged, and the end of the’ courtship was an action for breach of promise 'blrought by 'the lady at Limerick Assizes last month. After the couple became engaged in 1873 the lady, according to her evidence. went to America, but returned to Ireland at the earnest entreaty of defendant in order that the marriage might take place. When she arrived the young man dallied and the lady went across the Atlantic again. A second time she returned and again defendant put off the marAnd the lady went a third time to America, returning in 1900. But the old love was off. and Thynne. said plaintiff, absolutely refused to wed her. The jury awarded Miss Coyne £ 150 wherewith to heal Cupid’s wo and.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue XI, 13 September 1902, Page 648
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142Courtship of Twenty-Seven Years. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue XI, 13 September 1902, Page 648
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