70-YEAR-GLD LOVER.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1921, 2 December 1913, Page 7

70-YEAR-GLD LOVER.

SCOOOI. TEACHER'S £30,000 CLAIM. An action for £313,000 damages for breach of promise brought by Miss Mary M'liityrc, a school teacher, agamst- a septuagenarian, Mr. William Hushes, a rich Brooklyn manufacturer, is causing much merriment in the Supreme Court of New York.

Tiio ease reached its climax-last month in the l-ocital of a long series of loveletters to which tho plaintiff listened in tears, while tiio four buxom daughtors of tiio defendant divided ilseir time be-S.s'yr-s-yiJ'ss! Fond invitations to join him hi moonlight walks or to accompany him to the f heat re alternated In tin* defendant's love-letters with the anxious exhortation, "Don't, brcatlio a word to my daughters," Fro in Bermuda the- defendant penned fiorv protestations of umlyin } ; nflection, to 'which ho added tiio iolkwing posteript:— 1 "In my room again, tiiinkm" of you and for yon. I semi you a chain of ' kisses seven hundred miles ion:;, with the end attached to your lips hikl ! hen encircled endlessly round your heart. There is not a missing link ;u 1 The plaintiff said that Mr. liutihes won her consent to_ be his _ wife onlv alter a long court ship, duriny which lie promised to bequeath her £I(i.(K!0 more than any of his daughters. Suddenly. when ill' preparations for the (milling had been made, and oven the wedding breakfast, ordered, he tele- j phoned. "If is all off." | Ties defence was thai the woman pro-j uoscd,