BREACH OF PROMISE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 18 September 1913, Page 2

BREACH OF PROMISE.

AN AMUSING CASE. An amusing breach of promise case, has, just been heard in-German South Africa, which ''.resulted in the plaintiff,* Fraulein Bertha-Stahl, sailing back to Hamburg unwed. The defendant was Herr" Justh, a prosperous engineer at Windhook. He being in urgent need of a good plain cook and laundress, decided to marry, but finding tfie sort of wife he wanted in South Africa, answered fraulein's matrimonial advertisement in a Berlin newspaper, and in due course received a charming letter enclosing the photograph of as pretty a German girl as any man could want for a bride. But Herr Justh also desired the assurance that this vision was a good housewife. A visit to a moving picture show furnished an inspiration; and He wrote asking the fraulein to have a moving picture taken of herself at different housed?]' l du-. tieß> This proved so eatisfactory that Herr Justh cabled money sufficient for passage and outfit; imploring the bride elect to start at\>nce. He met the steamer but the lovely face of the woman seen in the pictures sent to him was nowhere to be found. Just as he was giving up the search in despair an exceedingly plain middle-aged woman-flung-her', arms around his tteck and proclaimed herself "hi s .little Bertha."" 'When he took the photo sent him from his pocket to compare with the'original, she confessed that, being plain of feature, she had hired a pretty actress to poso for .her. The moving picture story was shown in Court, and the Judge decided in ""favour of the defendant".