THE LANGWORTHY CASE. Mr LANGWORTHY BROUGHT TO BOOK. HE PAYS ALL DAMAGES AND APOLOGISES.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 215, 13 August 1887, Page 4

THE LANGWORTHY CASE. Mr LANGWORTHY BROUGHT TO BOOK. HE PAYS ALL DAMAGES AND APOLOGISES.

A Reuters cable despatch received to-<ky announces that Mr E. M. Langwovthy, who has so long defied the English Courts, has at last been brought to book. The telegram is as follows :—: —

London, August 10. Iv the Lang worthy case damages have been awarded to Mrs Langworbhy by consent. Mr Langworthy apologises to the Court, and pays damages forthwith.

We assume that the damages referred to in this case are those for breach of promise of marriage. Mrs Langworthy, after the marriage at Antwerp had been declared illegal, was advised by her solicitors to enter an action for broach of promise of maraiage as the only way provided by law for punishing Langworthy for the fraud he had perpetrated, upon her. Tho writ was served upon Mr Langworthy in the Argentine Republic, but he treated it with the contempt he had shown to all the othor orders of the Court. Judgment went against him, the amount of damages to be assessed in August before Baron Huddleston. Meanwhile tho grip of the law, backed by a powerful public opinion, has been closing more firmly round the defiant Nabob. To protect himself against the judgments for alimony and costs, amounting to about L 4,000 standing against him, Mr Langworthy had got lid of L 50,000 worth of property in England, and had sufffered himself to be made bankrupt. But his troubles were not over. His sister, and his mother to whom the property had been tran&fered, were within "reach of the Court and they were placed on the rack of examination. Mrs Langworthy senior is a very old lady as well as very wealthy and she cannot take her property with her, and her beloved son would grieve above all things if it were left away from him. The suit commenced in the Argentine Courts had carried tho war into his retreat. He was thus driven into a corner, and has collapsed. He has now humbly apoligised to the Court, and undertakes to pay all costs and damages forthwith. Justice is thus vindicated, and let us hope that a healthy public opinion in society will express itself unmistakably, and will show the man by sending him to Coventry thatsuch ofFences as his cannot be atoned for by money wrung from him when resistance was of no further avail. The full story of this extraordinary case, in book form, with illustrations, will be sent to any address, post free, from the "Star" Oilics, Auckland, or News Oflicc, on receipt of a postal note for Is.