CITY MAN AND ACTRESS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1625, 17 December 1912, Page 7

CITY MAN AND ACTRESS.

BANK MANAGER TO, PAT BREACH , | OP PROMISE DAMAGES. ' In the King's Bench Division on Octo- j ber 30, before Mr.'': Justice Horridge and ■; a. jury, the hearing was 1 resumed of the ; breach of promise action brought by Miss Mary i'ergussori, an actress, living ; at Highgafe, against Mr...Charles St. John ! Collier, a city .'hank manager (says, the ! "Westminster Gazette"). "_. " .';" ' ' . . i Miss Fergusson was again examined by j her counsel (Mr. Dlkin). . '; On the suggestion of the Judge counsel ; asked the plaintiff her - oge.-< -: "I -am ; twenty-five now," sho replied. ; His Lordship: Then you were twentythree at the time of the engagement F— \ "Yes, my lord.'" ' ■ ■ Proceeding, plaintiff said she had given up theatrical engagements at the "defendant's request, although there were'■ no. ". special damages claimed on that account. ■ : Plaintiff weut.on to say that :she : only __■ saw the defendant from time to time. Ho said he didn't have timo'j he had so j many business engagements. On October .., 27, her birthday, defendant sent' her a : present. :' Did you ring him up at the bank when i ho did'u't see you?—'Tes; I asked' him j to come along and see me." \_ . ■ ; Have you ever seen him since?—'Ao; ! I haven't, but ho has written to me." < Witness said she had made all her > trousseau herself. '■''. During tho time "of her engagement, l said witness, defendant had told her that ! his salary at the bank was a year. : Under cross-examination counsel, re-"/' ,• ferriug to the occasion when tho engage- '; ment was broken off, asked where it nap- j pened. "Wo had been dining at the Monico," said plaintiff, "and he sat be-' I side me as if I. wasn't with him. He ; wouldn't talk, to me." ... ■ ' . Do you say lie never said anything at all?—'' Well; not much; he eimply 6at j and sulked." o Afterwards, said plaintiff,' ho walked home with me, but as far apart as he | possibly could. . ' I Did you think'even then that he would ; make a good" husband?—"l thought ho ' ; would take a lot of handling."' (Laughter.) ; , ■■".'-•■■"- 'I But is it not usual for men to have their own way?—"Ho had his." (Laughter.) You thought you could handle him, though?—" Yes; I thought I rnnld when i his mother was not there." (Laughter.). . , But ho wroto to you: on July '-0, 1910: "Sweetheart,, I will try and be nice to" i you, becauso it will never do to have all ; 'my'own way when wo are married." I ; suppose, said counsel, you did not want i him to have his own wav after marriage? i —"I do not • think it fs usual for hus-. '. bands to have their own way at all. I don't think they ought to." (Laughter.) Without retiring, the jury gave' a ver-. i diet for the plaintiff, awarding hor .£2OO ! damages. , His lordship gave judgment i for that amount, with costs." "' • " '