The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-04-04 00:00:00

BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.

A breach of promise case, A nnie Browne v. William
Prescott, came before the Master of the Irish Court of
Common lima and a jury for assessment of damages,
judgment having been allowed to go by default. The
plaintiff was described as • schoolmistress, residing with
her parents at Parsonage-street, Salford. The defendant,
who is two or three years her senior, is • young Scotchman,
in business in Dublin, as a dyer.—The plaintiff's counsel
sta.esi that his client was the daughter of an industrious
master builder in Salford. She had been well educated,
and two years ago was appointed head mistress of St.
Gabriel's Schools, Manchester, at a salary of £B5 a year.
Last July she came to Dublin. on a visit to her aunt, Mrs.
Buchanan, and at her auneo house the defendant was
Introduced to her. He went with her twice to a flower
show, and fell in love with her. After • stay of a few
days she was returning to Manchester, and defendant
asked and obtained leave to see her off. On the iteme
day he wrote her a letter in the language of ardent
affection, and between that day and September, when he
broke off the engagement, he wrote her eighteen further
letters. In the first letter he said, "I wish I was near
you just now to have a few nice kisses and eubscriliesi
himself. "Your own most affectionate and loving
Willie." In her reply plaintiff said that "in fancy's
dreams she was still in dear old Dublin ; and signed the
letter, "Yours lovingly, Annie." In his next letter the
defendant c Mel plaintiff " My darling He "sent
forty kisses," and shortly afterwards he "sent &thousand
kisses." Ilaintiff said she liked Doldin and its people :
and in reply the defendant said, "I am very glad you
like Dublin PO IlltiCh There are some very nice buildings,
including pretty little houses for newly-married people.
How very nice it would be to have a little house about
R ithmines, and a pleisant wife like somebody I know
to furnish it. Rot if yon .ntly saw Dithlitt on a wet
day toe nod is .Irea.l 10. I motet nay anything about
tbe -•eil,. that the belies are c handsome
tbs,• spore than good looks required in the nine-
•••• T:. .• I • 'I 1001.1 ut 1 it the I,llintilf a visit at
ii r p 11•," lion, I.ls return wrote
a f ri.,l I.'t''-1 of mania the plaintllT ith
ti,. stir 1,ei.11 of her its. Its a •elite,l. IL•fetplaut
.tc,ii, 55,•55, `er on th., 1611, -n.otentber, lien! a .laywith
pl a i 'l. a.O It .1 11. .111.1 xr.,, th.lt Silt) AL,AtIllgiVO
six . ci••,, i • -1 •14,,0,,, of iter appointment as
„; 0.1 tuarrie.l in Matt-
el• , -t s; eI. .` oul r. Mallt.crslec;ng thus
s 1, •f• : r• I •a• i to Dublin, and the plain-
t c ;I, • . ;,.. '• 111.1 ,14.1.1111 t list been
inf , ~, i; h 1' • ~1.;•,.1. I. rl no fortune. Ind he said
1.11. t • 11 ' •r. !1.1.: sea's wife lot
c 011.1 cr, IV Ia e. Ii fendat.t nstitrited to Dublin on the
lltPi 15 CM". 1., an I on the Alta he wrote the talon ifig
let- r : -" Mv .bar A ii.tie,—l thought it well for toe to
write t 3.. I it 11.4 to give up paw school just at
present. On einsideration, I feel that our engagement
was ratle r premature, and that it would be well fur us
to know 111" rs of each otter before taking such a serious
step.—Yours sincerely. Wm. Preseotk" No explanation
of his ehaugeof feelin.; was afforded by the evidence.—
The Jury awarded the plaintiff LAO.
Tilt: BREMERHAVEN EXPLOSION.

It Its Iseu proved that the real name of the inan
ho ooinitted the outrage, is Alexander Keith.
wa,l, .Lt ,cliero his father, John Keith,
mad hit 11110 h, tth IcrlC6o, Ind a• brewery. Daring
the Anieric an Civil War he W:l4 activcly engaged in
blockade running. and iias especially connected with the
captain of the Old Dominion. Towards the end of Pen he
disappeared from Halifax, having hen a defaulter and
embezzling Wats* lollur., froni several business friends.
Of this sum MUUU dollars were obtaine,l, according to
eYillenCe, in insurance affected on his own account
on the steamer I !aledonia which was lost at tea. tinbot-
quently he lived at New York, under the assumed name
of Alexander King Th loon but nothing has been
ascertained of the persons with whom he was connected
at that time. At the commencement of MU he sullenly
appeared at Highland, when he was in possession .4
MOO dollars, and married a Miss Godly Paris. At the
end of the same year one of the persons whom he Mol
defrauded, a colonel in the Confederate snug, named
Smoot, host hint arrested and condseted to St. Louis,
where he came to terms with hint. At the commence-
ment of Inad, fearing a prosecution on the part of the
other parties whom he had defrauded at St. Louis, he
came to Europe with his wife. The three boxes of furs
shipped on board the City of Boston in the name of
John Thomas was not insured. No accessories to the
crime committed hy I • ,in Ktl, have been discovetal.
It is proved that Mr. Skidmore allowed the barrel, with
the expressive sustance, to he admitt I t I Oil Nov York
bonded warehouse at Bremen, without discivering the
click work enclosed in the 114111 e. The tuodel submitted
to Herr Fuchs' the watchmaker. is the original work
made to order for Thomas, by his assistant Hind. The
inquiries in England have not yet been terminated.