PRICE OF BLIGHTED AFFECTION

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1830, 16 August 1913, Page 3

PRICE OF BLIGHTED AFFECTION

iC50,000 DAMAGES. , The Marquis of Northampton who consented to pay a record breach of promise damages on July 2, had then borne the title only sixteen days, 'having succeeded Iris faluer, the well-known Liberal peer and philanthropic great London ground landlord, on June IG. Plaintiff, Miss Dairy Markham, whose age is "21, or a year younger than the Marquis, has been well known on the London stage for somo years, and recently scored a great success as Suzanne Polignao in "Tho Glad Eye." The Court was crowded with stage beauties, and thore was a long queue outside. The Sackville-Seott ",£1,000,000 will ca.se" had to .ba adjourned l'or a day for this suit, as several leading counsel, Sir Edward Carson, Mr. J?. 13. Smith, and Jlr. Hemmerdc, were in both cases. But the adjournment proved to have been unnecesasry, as Sir Edward Carson rose at once, and explained that tho suit had been settled. The Marquis, it appeared, -was bent upon the marriage, but his father forbade it, and a few days toi'orc his death laid upon his son a most ioicmn obligation against it. A pathetic letter from tho Marquis to tho plaintiff, signed, "Your broken-hearted ]jim," was road. He assured her that he loved and respected her more than anyone in tho world, "and that you are absolutely my ideal of perfect woman-' iioori. Jiul, Daisy, 'the ways of'the world are hard, and I want you to believe that what I am now doing lam doing from a senso of duty, genuinely believing it to be the best for both of"us. Darling, I have known it all along. I have tried to smother my reason, to stiflo my thoughts for your sake, but when my father talked to me on Friday he only faced ino with tho same thoughts that I had told you of when I first loved you, and which I have ever since been trying to suppress. Daisy, you don t know liow theso so-called ladies would treat you, and I really could not bear to see you suffering it, and with your sweet, sensitive nature it would be torture to vou." Sir Edward Carson announced that tho Marquis consented to settle ,£50,030 upon tho lady, and pay nil the costs of the action. The figure, which created a sensation in Court, is five times the largest "breach" damage on record. Ten thousand was awarded to Miss Fortescue against Viscount Garmoyle, afterwards Earl Cairns, |nd ,£IO,OOO to Miss Gladvs Ivnovles against Mr. Leslie Duncan, editor and proprietor of the "Matrimonial News." Miss Markham s real name is Mrs. Moss. She was niarrfccl sevsral years t-o a stockbroker s clerk, whom she divorced in 190 G.