BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3501, 26 September 1882, Page 4

BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.

An amusing breach of promise case has just been tried at Liverpool. The plaintiff was an elderly woman named Mary Munn. who keeps a glass and china shop, and the defendant John Scott, car proprietor, both of Liverpool. The plaintiff said that the defendant visited her at her shop ten or twelve times a day during their courtship. Five weeks after the death of his wife he asked her to marry him, but she refused. Tho request was renewed, however, more than a hundred times, and at Christmas, 1880, she consented to marry him, and went to Liverpool to his house. The defendant, however, put off the marriage, and on March 29 told her that he would not marry her until July 27. She then returned to her own shop, where she had lived for nearly three months without a bed to sleep on. At the end of that time, however, she went to live with her mother at Trafalgar-street, and about midnight on August 15th she was roused by the defendant, who had climbed up to her window and was tapping on the glass. She said to him that if he had been seen there by a policeman he whould have been locked up, to which he replied, " What do I care about a policeman or being locked up? I would do more than that for the woman I love." The defendant stayed at the window talking for about an hour and a half, but did not say when he intended to carry out his pronise to marry her. After this the plain'iff heard that the defendant was keeping company with a young woman named Jeffreys, and when she asked him about this he admitted it was so. During the engagement the defendant gave her presents —a silver brooch, a pair of earrings, and a pair of garters. After a brief consulation, a verdict was given for the defendant.