PROPOSED BY PHONOGRAPH.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 8, Issue 26, 29 March 1907, Page 7

PROPOSED BY PHONOGRAPH.

BUT TO THE VVI[O.N'« GIRL. ; j 1

Miss Blanche, Cowman, of East Liverpool, Ohio, has commenced legal action against John T. Richards, ol I Baltimore, claiming £5,000 damages | for alleged breach of promise to mar* rv, and the evidence that she claims she will present in court will be the strongest ever given. .Miss Cowman ' declares that she will produce Rich* ard’s own voice, speaking the words of love and begging her to be his wife.

The case, if ever permitted to gc on healing, will be one of the oddest ever heard, for the girl claims that she lias in her possession a phonograph record reproducing the spoken words of Richards, and that through it he asked her to be his wife, and that she accepted his offer in writing, told him that she loved him, and then instead of receiving a reply filled with the joyful ecstasies of tin 1 accepted lover, she received a cautiously-worded request that she send the phonograph record back to him ; and later, after she had refused to part with the record, and thus deprive herself of the pleasure and joy of hearing his proposal once, twice, or thrice, each day, she received another letter from Richards, in which ho declared that he was not engaged to her, did not love her, never had proposed to her, and, worse than all, that he loved an-

other girl. The phonographic record on which Miss Cowman relies, emits the following ecstasy “My darling, my Blanche, I love you ! I am on my knees, sweetheart mine, here in the darkness, talking to this machine as I would talk to you were I with yon to-night. I have loved you, it seems for ages, although I have known you only a year. I have loved you and longed for you day and night—night and day, dailing--and a thousand times the queslhm has trembled on my lips. ! want you for my own, to love and keep and protect from the storms of the world, and perhaps the next —for ever, through all eternity. Yon must say yes, darling mine, and love me a little hit, and let me love yon. even if you cannot love me just yet. Let me leach you to Jove, let mo devote my life to yon, and, unworthy as I am. dearest—all too unworthy of your love—let me holies' • Mr. Richards admits that he rpoU* the proposal into the phonograph., hut he maintains that it was intended for "the other 'girl,” and not: for Miss Cowman. The latter wrote him for a certain song record, and in Ids hurry he sent her. the proposal record hy mistake, "the other -girl" leeeiting the song. Before site wiil consider the question of settlement Miss Cowman wants Richards to produce "the other girl'' whom he calls Blanche.