The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-05-23 00:00:00

AMUSING BREACH OP PROMISE CASE.

Iu toe Queeu's Beach Divisi bolero Mr. Baron
tiuddied,ou ou Saturday lest tools v. W.atlint was
an actiou to recover damages for • breach of promise to
mercy. The Wawa!, wee a bins Albs) LW., and
the defendant wow William Charles Woollett. The
piaintiff alleged toe defeudisat in 1877, 1878, and
1879 promised to inArry bet; and the defendant
pleaded he was iafaat to 1877, that he bad bee dim-
merged from hie promise, and so o.; bu: wittun the
Mat few day. these deteacee had been withdrawo, and
au order bed beta made by 0.0:111104 of Chanters, so
that uow the only gues.ioa was the egnottot of damages
to be awarded to In. plaintiff. She was a young lady
WOO resided at Brixton ; she had lost her mother,
aud her farmer w.s an inmate of • lunatic asylum. In
£876 die met the defendent, who tree lived with
bui panne at Brixton, and was at that time an
oltioer to the while, sod was looking f ,r ward to obtain-
ing a oununisaiou in the regular a:my. After the
acgualatauo• bad continued auout twelve mouths the
dsteudant proposed to marry the plaintiff, and his pro-
posal was accepted. lb. intimacy cetincied through
1878-9, and in 1.878 the defeudant was fortunate enough
to ()train a oumutesion in the 270 i Regiment of trout.
lie, however, wee much troubled by finding this regi-
ment was at fling-Kong, and by receiving order. to
join it there. Tay vessel was to sail in August, and
the defeadmit tried to marry the plaintiff so that he
might take her with hint. He went to tit. Saviour's
Crumb, Huston, but found they could not be married
there because neuber of them resided in the district.
U. then tried to get married at Lewisham, but the
swivel was to sail before the marriage could be
celebrated, awl the defendant had t, depart for Hone-
King; but trom twit place he wrote to the plaintiff
in terms of the most ardent affection, and said
if he could cot get au ex hange he should reign.
Was tho p &bud, wee cane 1, and said she
resided *kb her eider at Brixton, sad she was now
24. The defendant was 26. She first became
metudiated with the defendant in 1878, and he then
lived with his father and mother at Brixton- HI.
father was • surveyor. When she had known him
about a year he made her an offer of marriage and ,
she accepted him. Their perents approved of it. Mr.
, Baron Huddleston : What wow your father? A clerk
In the Custom House. She and her sister bad an '
allowance of about £lOO a year in reetect of her
father. On the 12th f November, 1877, she received
a letter from the defendant, in which he addressed her
as "My own darling old Aden" acid sail "I have just
PAO, from the Post-office, but there was no letter from
you. How is it that to.o have not written to me at ,
all this week, daring ? Pieces, Alice dear, write
to me at 'lice;" and he signed himself " Believe in.
to remain, till death, your most loving affection-
ate CI4AKLEY " On the 14th ..f September. 1878,
he wrote My own darling old pet, Alice," promised
I', see her, and talked of their having a nice little
dwelling, and said ' I picture to toys-If my litho
h We, and can imagine my duck at the window
waiting for her clarling"—(a laugh)—and be sub-
scribed hitneelf "Ever your own loving Cliaitter."
tie sailed Oa the 21e1 of August, 1879, to j in his
regiment at !brag-Kong, cud he propoed that they
should be mottle I before he went. On the day before
he was to sail she received a telegram from him in
which he said he had heard front Cheeses (the cler_gy•
man), and stid, further, "Not in the district. Beg
Alice go and arrange district church, Brockley. Will
be at his office 10.30." She went with him to the I
parish church, Brixton, on the morning of the 21st to
see if they cold be married. He sail they had not
been long enough in the district, and then
he sailed for hint-King. Its wrote to her from that
place on the 10:h of October, calling her
" own clar.rag old Alice," and raid "Oh, deer,
if you could only know ii.or onxious and nervous I am
away how Yon deer, to know that you are all right,"
and be added," I like the regiment very touch, dear.
Tho officers are v, ry clo fehows, and sire us • warm
welcome, dear. H rag-Kong is a very warm place,
an if eh .11 be glad t., get home to my own girl. I seri
very unhappy sway from y.,u, and brig ti get home
to my little et." Ti,,'
.. next month he said, ' I have
made up inked that I will resign my commission in
January, so as to get hcck to my darling one, eel can-
not stand being away much longer, darling," and when
he arrived he said, "Nothing in the world will ever
take me away from you en lung ash lire," sad he said
further, "As you r-ad this, darling, try and fancy
that I have my hand, round yourueck, and tolling you
this myself, with knees, dear ;" and the conclusion
we., "Believe me, ever until death, your own loving
and affectionate CHARLEY." In soother letter defend-
ant said." If you could Only think, darli g. what I would
give to get built agaio. I we, thinking last night, as
X went to bet, if I could only get away I would give
Ore Years of my life. darling." In February, 1880,
he said " I do not think I cm steed th s cruel separa-
tion long. li myj;eople do not do something I shall
have to reef"' A Week letsr be met 'welcome
news" that he should be able:ter jn„lo &no Iligth.
The last letter from him was WO
1880. He still called the plain " own
dsrligg
old AIM'," and he oominded "Believe me, my deer,

your own darling until death, CINABIAY." She wrote
her isat letter to him in answer to this. The plain-
tiff left off writing in oonseqiimas of his mother telling
her be wiabssi lb. engagement to be broken off. She
afterwards hoard be hid married. To Mr. Baron
liuddlemiton This was about a year ago. The
defendant had DO income but et. pay- His babar was
in a good position. lie kepi a pony chaise sad •
Page boy, aud lived in a house of about £7O a year.
Almandse 0. Dods, Um plaintiff's br•aa. t.a? gave
svidenos as to Ms engagement, and said be unwed
the defendant's pay warn about £lO a year.
Witt said he believed in fain it was fl9O. Agent.-
um upon Um door of the court napped forward and
said be was the Wm, of the defendant, and would
give evidence if allowed to do so. Ho addeJ he had a
tivairign from the defendant on Friday, and had not
had time to &usage for having counsel. In answer to
questions from the, Judie, he said his son's pay way,
tie believed, da• • deb and he had no means of his
own balms this, flew,, now 1321%,ri0d. b•rt
any mousy with his wife? Not one farthing. be
defendant was married at liong.Kong in
1880, and without witness's knowledira
approve of his sogageovect to tho plaintiff ? Fes out
he mu I qualify that to this extent—when he found
they wen engaged he did not oppose, but at lint he
did object to the engagement. Mr. B ova Ruddleston,
in summing up, said b th the plaintiff &addenda it's
father had given that <midmost very wall, and wilts an
came atiseuos of anything Use id-feeling. The Jury
returned a verdict, for the plaintiff for 9.200.

RUMOURED MARRIAGE OP PRINCESS
BEATRICE.
Tlai oft-repeats] rumour of a matrimooial alliance
tor Princess Beatrice W ono. more revived for the
benefit of gossips. This Woe the prospective be4d.-
s said to be Prises William, eldest eon of the
Lairave ot Hamm. Tim moos, comae from Berko.

0111011 ST.
aornimatits V. UMW unman%

On Wwinsecisy this match was oonolteled in favour
of the GonotaL b nine whines& Scores I—The
itumunlians—lst inning., 362; 2nd innings (ono wiokst
down), Wt. Oztesti—lst innings, 189; 2al innings,