BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2275, 20 April 1886, Page 2

BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.

At the Leeds Assizes, recently, the case of Morris v Leveen came on for Hearing. The plaintiff was Miss Lizzie Morris, who' is about seventeen, and the defendant, Abraham Leveen, a watch dealer and travelling jeweller, carrying on business in Manchester. About Whitsuntide.last year a common friend introduced ''the ' parties to one another. The defendant afterwards paid frequent visits to: the plaintiffs father's house, He professed a warm attachment to her, "and wrote a number of letters, but as they wore mostly in Hebrew, the learned counsel 1 (Mr Atkinson) said/ he did not proDoso(to. trouble tho jury . with thetjfe|^ : plaintiffs father was consulted, gave his consent to his daughter's marriage, the defendant also producing a written consent froiri his parents.' Nunv erous presonts were given by tho defendant, who begged that Miss Morris Bliould pay a visit to him at Manchester... She did so, staying, at his sister's. On the fifth morning of her visit he forced' himself iutu her bedroom and made an attempt to assault her,' but' she escaped and van down stairs in her night-dress. The defendant afterwards refußfed to speak to her, and told her if ho could not do as he liked she might go home, for he would not marry her; He then stripped her of all her jewellery, and turned her out of doors into the streets of Manchester without a friend to' go to; She managed to get home to Leeds, and a solicitor was forthwith consulted and instructed. The defendant and. his Bister, Mi* M|Kennel, were examined. His Lordship summed up, remarking that ono side or the other was telling an absolute ' and deliberate falsehood. Having re-' viewed the evidence, he asked the jury '. whether thoy thought it a,likely thing that a girl who complained of being out-" raged in tho morning should stay in tho same house until three o'clock in.the afternoon with the man who she' ffljfad committed the assault. The out leaving the box, returned a verdil/' for the defendant. ; His Lordship; Quit! right, gentlemen.