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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2986, 10 September 1878, Page 2

i A breach of promise case was .heard on, , June 18, before Baron Fitzgerald "and a ! jury. The plaintiff is a Miss Moor, twenty«two yeirs of age,-the. daughter o£; -r a!shopkeeper.in Lame,/ county, Antrim." The defendant is Major Duncan M'-JNTeill, ' of the Madras Army Corps! Theplaiatiff, a dressmaker's apprentice,'was.employed at the house of; Mrs M 4tfeill> defendant's mother, and while . there defendant came home on furlough and fell. •' in love with her., She refused-to ,haro -'■■' anything to say to him on account of the ( > disparity of their positions, but he^i" persuaded her father to send her to Eng- .'; land for three years to be educated, and". -^ that she might acquire an English accent/ to suit her to become'the defetrdaht's wife '"''>"■ defendant agreeing to pay, £100 a year for ttr her support. . She .travelled on the.eohti-'// 1 nent also,,and during the' time received' > letters from the defendant.'. Some of'these'l '] I were read, and caused great amusement in •'' Court. They were, most affeotionat© 1 in' ' their terms., A few months' after she wentto England the defendant began, to \ i grow, cool, aud ultimately forsook her and V married another peraon.-Miss Gutbrie of ■- Forfar. The plaintiff deposed that the! "' defendant swore on a; Bible Uo=be true to / her and marry her. He RaTe^erVHnjr ' ' with the motta « Wait and trust,""and '■■■' said he hoped he would soon be uiviri^'v £spo ; damageß in the eafce. ' '/ * "T*