BREACH OF PROMISE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10, 12 January 1914, Page 6

BREACH OF PROMISE.

O AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

Sarah Ann Farr, a barmaid, of Droitwich, was awarded £OO damages at Worcester recently for breach of promise under the following singular circumstances :—William James Horne, a house decorator, of Kirby Muxloe, near Leicester, while acting as the advance agent „for a company touring with “Raffles,” visited Worcester, and, falling in love with the plaintiff, obtained a situation in the city and became engaged to her. The banns were duly published, but the defendant was arrested on a charge of obtaining money by false pretences from a Airs Rate Price, a widow, and sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. At the expiration of bis sentence, instead of marrying the plaintiff, be married the widow whom lie bad defrauded, and sot up in business near Leicester. The plaintiff, not having heard of his marriage, only discovered the fact as the result of telephoning to his address to ask for assistance in the maintenance of the child which had then been horn, and the defendant’s wife answering the telegram. The defendant did not defend the case, and the plaintiff asked for £IOO damages.