FEIGNING LUNACY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2547, 20 May 1881, Page 3

FEIGNING LUNACY.

SECOND EDITION

—- What is man to do when he makes, the sad discovery that he loves another woman better than the woman to whom he is engaged ? Feign lunacy, says Mr Patrick Neeson, spirit dealer, of Glasgow. This gentleman engaged a priest to make his lady love believe that his noble and most sovereign, reason had become like sweet■bells jangled out of tune and harsh. When once she was persua ed, that this was the case it was easy to induce her to forego further proceedings, the most courageous woman would prefer no husband at all to a husband that was mad. Mr Neeson, however, after the fashion of suicides, was only afflicted with temporary in sanity, and the very next week led to the alter a sister of the priest’s former colleague. A breach of promise of marriage ensued, and it is satisfactory to know that Mr Neeson’s ingenious device to avoid 1 the consequences of his faithlessness proved abortive, and that the lady is consoled with £320 damages, free of costs.