THE PERKINS-BALDWIN CASE.

Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 269, 17 April 1886, Page 3

THE PERKINS-BALDWIN CASE.

There is now being tried at Los Angelos, California, a very sensational brcach-of-proinise suit, in which Miss Louise Perkins, a young woman of 19 summers is plaintiff, and " Lucky" Baldwin, a rich and lecherous old reprobate, upwards of GO years of age, is the defendant. The defendant is worth several million dollars, made principally in the San Frineisco Mining Stock Board, and he acquired the soubriquet " Lucky " because of the success which generally attended his investments in that gambling institution. Although this adjective may have been appropriately applied to his business career, it is certainly a misnomer, if the trials and tribulations that he has undergone in consequence of an inordinate passion for Watching and pursuing The light that lies In women's eyes be taken into account. He has been married no less thun four times—his last and present wife being but 22 years of age—and has figured before as defendant in a breach-of-promise case. Miss Perkins is the daughter of an old farmer, whose farm is in the neighborhood of Baldwin's extensive ranche a few miles from Los Angelos city. Baldwin met her for the first time at her father's house, when she was 16 years old; and her beauty, which is said to be most striking, at once attracted his attention. Shortly afterwards he invited the girl to accompany him on a pleasure trip to San Francisco. Her parents, supposing that he was merely taking a Platonic interest in their daughter, permitted her to go with him under the of an apparently genteel women much older than she. The evidence, however, tends to show that Baldwin took the girl from her home that he might ruin her, and that he affected his purpose under promise of marriage, which he subsequently repudiated. The plaintiff lays her damages at 500,000 dollars, and will doubtless recover a good round sum.— 'Frisco Correspondent of the Otago Daily Times.