AN UNSCRUPULOUS LOTHARIO.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1547, 22 May 1885, Page 2

AN UNSCRUPULOUS LOTHARIO.

At the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning, before Mr H. C. S. Baddoley, Et.M., Edward Honey wood was charged that on the 22nd day of .-»pril last, being then the bailee of throe one pound notes of the monies, goods, and* chattels of Charlotte Colston, he did feloniously take and convert the same to his own use con-

trary to the form of the statute in sum!’ 1 cases made and provided. The accused was also charged with the larceny of two rings from the said Charlotte Oolaton. Mr Branson, who appeared for the informant, said that his client, acting under hia advice, had determined not to proceed with the criminal charge, but. intended to bring a civil action against the accused to recover the property specified in the informat on, and the amount of expenses incurred in consequence of his unscrupulous conduct. There could be no moral doubt anout the facta as they appeared in the information, but unfortunately there was not witness to support the allegations of the informant. Mr Branson said the informant and tho accused had been fellow employees at the Somerset Hotel. He recited the particulars of the case, which have already been published, and said he had no doubt the proposal of marriage made by the accused to the informant was prompted by highly improper motives. Mr Branson read a number of letters addressed by the accused to the informant, first remarking that the;, correspondence was entirely free from dates, punctuation, or any other mark of aristocratic culture. Dearest little darl'n-—OjcII not tee you for any time this morning,R so am obliged to write you. 1 want to ask you a question. Will you be my wife? You may think that I am not able to keep one, but when I come of age I get ten thou-

sand pounds, and that is next October. Will talk it over with you when I got your

answer. —Teddy. Dearest Maud—l can sea that you do not care for me, so that if you care for anybody else well and good. I have heard something this afternoon which makes me write this. The only thing I have to say is, do not make a fool of anybody else the same as you have me. I love you, darling, better than my own mother. My darling, I wish you every luck, and try and think of me sometimes. I shall start for England as soon as I can gat a berth.—Yours, always the same.— Teddy. Dearest Maud—Forgive me, darling, for being cross. All I want you to say is that you care for me. I will stick to you always. I love you so dearly that sometimes I am very nearly dancing. I am going to toil you something that I have not before—l am the second son of a lord, and, if my other brother dies, I come in to all, and ask you to be my wife, and I will marry six weeks from to-day, if you say you care for me, and take you home directly. Tell mo to night, darling; lam sleeping in No 17, darling. I want an answer one way or the other, as I must make arrangements at once. If you do not care for me, then I will go nwiy from hero for good, and not trouble you any more; but I shall never be able to forget you. My darling, do not take the only tiling away from me that I bold dear in life,'or I might as well be killed at once : it rests with you now. If you only could know how much yon have cut me up tonight, you would think of me a litile perhaps. You do not care, but God forgive that I should ever live to see you married to any one e'se. If I can see you to-night let me ; if not, let me see you to-morrow. You do not know what a state of mind 1 am in darling; you do not know how I lovo you, darling; let mo have an answer to night, darling one. —Ever yours, Teddy Hon by wood. Deadest Maud, —In answer to your note of to-day, you say that 1 have caused you more pain and sorrow this last than Mr Ashton did in nine months Darling, I am sorry for you, but if you have suffered so much, don’t you think I have too. I ask you to answer this at once if you can ; say that you care for me, let the past go. We have both been to blame perhaps ; I have, more than you. If so, forgive me. If you say you care for me you shall never have cause to complain again ; whatever you do, I will say nothing, but we shall have to be married at once ; but I can talk to you about that. Then I will make arrangements with the Bank. I ask you —Don’t you think it was rather bard luck on me to stand and see you give B——> love letters? I would not causa you pain on my life. Think over what I say this morning. If you had not been so cross it would have been all right. I have got something to give you if you consent to make it up. How dearly and always shall, darling. If you give me up, God hi.lp me George came and taunted me about the holder ; nice, was it not 1 Let me have an answer at once, darling. Yours for ever, F. Edward Honeywood. Go and leave me if you wish it, Never let me cross your mind. If you think I am unworthy, J Go and leave me, never mind.

Barling, I have been in more pain today than ever I have been in my life oeforo. Every day makes me love you the more, and it you were to give me up it would kill me, darling. My only wish is to make you happy. If you are not, darling, what can Ido to make you t Do mind and coma out with me to-morrow night, darling.—Ever yours, Teddy H. P. S. —I will be down after we close up, if you like, for a quarter of an hour; if you do not want me then, cannot come till Friday, darling ; answer at once. I could not get down, had to go to the court, darling. Mr Hill has asked me to stay on till next Friday, and I have told him I will. I have seen the minister, and he will be down at 11 o’clock on Friday next, Then we will go away for good, darling angel.— Ever yours, Teddy. In great haste. [We have taken some liberties with the punctuations and orthography of the foregoing letters, otherwise they appear as written.] The Magistrate said the disclosures made pointed to the accused as a heartless scamp, but Mr Branson would be allowed to withdraw the present information