Breach of Promise.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3046, 5 November 1888, Page 2

Breach of Promise.

[ • Jean Luie, of the Tichborne perjury caso fame, to committed for trial at tlio Sydiioy Central Police Court last week. The facts of the oaso mo as follows: —The" prosecutor ■ Clinrjes John Zalgven, a Gentian, posspssec! of property, bccaiiie acquainted with Luip, and for a considerable time paid his board and lodging i account. Subsequently Luio sug- i gestcd that Zalgren should get" married, hinting that ho (Luis) was in a position to make a good match forjiim. An advertisement j was; inserted in tho papers, 1 to whioli lady replied signing herself Miss Muir. ZalgrpupeUipr and pde p appointment'.for.tlitr following ovoning, but tho lady did not appear. Next day Zalgeit received the following letter:- "Sir. —I am instructed by Miss Muir, late of Balmain, and her relatives, to .• take • proceedings against foir ,lireach: of.promise of marriage, ia\A-whichj damages will be laid at msPleal# name your solicitor. t J. D.■ Edmund? Smart, solicitor/' Some days later,'': a.' wtit • foi oftptorbisaMss served-upon • Zalgren by,-a(perfiofe named Thompson. Luio/Byifipffif ised alpph tp.;:tear» fcjjp- uk-' [fortunate•■position"' of his ■ beloved I benbfacloiy 'and having' quesli'oiici] | Thompson, fluggeaedHlie^ifatili'ty

of ft compromise to avoid oxpoauro. He also proposed that tliq process server should rcceivo a guinon. for tho Mi of serving tho writ, . Luie casnßy inquired whether the case would require a special jury, to which the answer-was in, the .affirmative, and that eaoh juryman's rofroslior would bo £5 a day, so tlio defendant's expenses' would run into £IOOO. Zalgren, at the prisoner's instigation, paid £l5O in cash, with a promissory noto for £25 moro, Tlio .prisoner in the presence of Thompson, wrote across the writ when the cash was handed over," This action is squared." Thompson thereupon put his signature to tho words and , J pocketed the money. The pair then left together.