TEN MINUTES' COURTSHIP

Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 33, 23 January 1930, Page 3

TEN MINUTES' COURTSHIP

GIRL AND WIDOWER

Miss" Margaret Bandon:, aged 26, of Cardiff^ Whales/ recently asked Mr Martin N, Sandell/ agedi 51, ii Swedish minting engineer. Jiving.a^p.ai-diff,, for damage? for.breach of promise. ■ ' ■' Mr Temple Morris, for Miss Bandon, said that ii^ 1927, Miss Bandon was chambermaid at an hotel in Pading- . ton, "VV., at which Mr Sandell,- a widower t.nd. his son, aged 13, stayed when in town. . : ;6ne morning she entered his v room and Mr Sandell remarked on her likeness to his late wife. He" also comment ed oji the beauty of her hair. He sugguested marriage. . . . ■Mr Temple said that Mr Sandell on returning to Cardiff asked Miss Bandon'a mother for permission for the mar riage. " . . On August 25, 1927, an engagement ring was bought. The '.'marriage was put off on-various pretexts from time to time. At Mr Sandell's invitation,' Miss Bandon became his Jiousekeeper. Eelations Isetween them became intimate and it was alleged that afterwards Mr Sandell turned) her out of the house.

Miss Bandon .in evidence, ".admitted that Mr Sandell proposed to her rather suddenly. She. entered his room at nine b 'clock. He proposed to her about 10

minutes past nine,

Mr Justice M'Curdie: So that he offer ed marriage after; ten minutes courtship?— Yes: ' ...•'...

■Mr Sandell saild. that-when he met the girl in London she asked him to help

her to' get back to Cardiff. He^ gave her £1. He denied promising to marry her.

He admitted in cross-examination that at Cardiff he agree dto marry her and gave her an engagement ring.; He wanted to marry her, but she refuseS. .'

The jury returned a verdict for "Miss Bandon with £75 damages