AN EXTRAORDINARY, MARRIAGE CASE.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 132, 15 July 1876, Page 3

AN EXTRAORDINARY, MARRIAGE CASE.

An extraordinary breach of promise of marriage was tried at the Cork assizes lately. The plaintiff was Mary Fox, the daughter of a farmer residing in the county of Limerick, and the defendant was James Roche, Wild occupies a dairy farm of some forty or fifty acres. Roche, it appeared, had been paying attention to another young woman named Condon, whom he ultimately seduced; He, however, proposed to Miss Fox, and was accepted. The marriage was arranged, blit the parish priest would not perform the ceremony in consequence of Roche’s conduct to Miss Condon. The parties then eloped and came to Cork, but further difficulties arose there, and they returned to Fermoy without being united. At Fermoy, Roche went to a solicitor and directed him to prepare a deed, in Which, in consideration of marriage, he ihade over his farm, stock, &c, to Mary Fox. The Archbishop of Cashel was appealed to, to induce the parish priest to relent, hut he declined to interfere. So matters stood. Roche and and Fox Resided in the house on the farm, but occupied different apartments until the end of December) when suddenly Roche disappeared and married Miss Condon, his first love. During the absence of the parties on their honeymoon, Miss Fox and her frieilds took possession of Roche’s house, and endeavored to retain it under the','deedi- Roche also brought a large party of his friends, and for nearly a -month there was an armed occupation of the hollSe by the rival factions, who took possession ot different ends of the building. The Petty Sessions of the district. Were eventually tesorted to, and Miss BW Was induced to withdraw her party, and to bring proceedings against the unfaithful Roche. The jury awarded the plaintiff' <£(so damages.