THE LANGWORTHY CASE. Terms of Settlement London. August 12.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 224, 15 October 1887, Page 2

THE LANGWORTHY CASE.

Terms of Settlement London. August 12.

In the London Bankruptcy Court, on Wednesday, before the Official Receiver (Mr R. P. Harding), the action brought by Mrs Langworthy against Edward Martin Langworthy for £28,600 damages for breach of promise of marriage, was brought to a close.

Bio Withdraws Everything and Pays. Mr Lumley said that negotiations had been satisfactorily arranged between him and Mr Brandon for the settlement of the case. The terms were that Mr Langworthy was to pay his client the sum of £20,000 upon the execution of deeds of release by Mrs Langworthy and Miss Long tor libels written by him upon them. Mr Langworthy was to give a written unequivocal withdrawal and apology— The Official Receiver : Ample apology ! Mr Lumley : Ample apology for the libel on Mrs Langworthy and Miss Long. Mrs Langworthy, sen., was to give assurances for the due payment of the £500 to be paid for the maintenance of the child, Gladys Langworthy. Mr Langworthy was also to pay the costs of Mrs Langworthy, jun. , and in theeventof any dispute arising, the matter was to be referred to a barrister of standing. Mrs Langworthy, sen., undertook that the terms of the agreement should be carried out, and the money paid within a month from this date, upon the deeds of release being handed to her,

I letter by Mrs Langworthy. I The following letter, signed Mildred Langworthy, appears in the " Pall Mall Gazette" :— " My Dear Sir, — Prom my heart I thank you and your generous readers for the supEort extended to me at an hour when all ope seemed to have gone. Almost as welcome tome as the substantial provision made for myself and my dear child was the outpouring of sympathy which reached me by every post from the subscribers to the fund that was raised to enable me to prosecute my suit, if need were, in the courts of the Argentine j Republic. After four long years, during I which I had experienced little but scorn and insult, it was indeed refreshing to receive from all parts of the kingdom and from beyond the limits of the kingdom, such warm assurances of kindly feeling as reached me every morning for weeks after the facts were made known to the public. Thanks fortunately to the skill and perseverance of my lawyers, to whom I can never be sufficiently grateful, and the invariable refusal of the Courts to listen to any of the misleading pleas put forward by Mr Langworfchy's lawyers, there has been little need : to draw upon the fund beyond those subscriptions which were personally sent to me as from friend to friend, in such a way as to render it impossible for me to refuse their acceptance or to suggest their return. Whatever other money has been withdrawn from the fund I must be allowed to repay as spon as I come into possession of my award. I should like the Defonco Fund to remain intact, to be dealt withaccording to the wishes of the subscribers. Some, no doubt, may prefer to have their subscriptiQns returned; others, however, ' may prefer to have the fund raised for my defence used as a nucleus to afford timely ' help in future for other women who may, find themselves deceived and deserted like myself. ' If such should be the desire of the subscribers, I need not say how much I > 'should rejoioe if my temporary troubles should lead to the establishment of a permanent source of relief and succour' for others overwhelmed with sorrow the bitterness of which I know, alas, too well. — I remain, ever youra most gratefully, Mildred Langworthy,"