AMUSING BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1187, 28 October 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)

AMUSING 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. The 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, puf off the marriage, and on March 29 Sold her that he would not marry her until July 27. She then returned to her owu shop, where she lived for nearly three months without a bed to sleep on. At the end of that time, however, shot went to live with her mother in Trafal-gar-street, and about mid-night on August 15 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 would 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 1 love.” The defendant stayed at the window talking for about an hour and a half, but did not say when he intended to i carry out his promise to marry her. After this the plaintiff 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. After a consultation, a verdict was given for the defendant.