The Sun.
London, England, 1827-06-02 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.
muTcums L. STULS.

Mr. PLATT opened the pleadings. This was an action
brought to recover compensation in damages for breach of
promise of marriage.
Mr. Sergeant ADAMS stated the case.—He would not
trouble the Jury with any general observations on the na-
ture of the injury for which his client sought redress; he
would simply detail the facts, and when these should be
proved, he would call on the Jury to say, whether any da-
mages eoeld be too severe agaiust the man who had
gained the affections of a woman, and, after doing so,
not contented with deserting, had insulted her. The
plaintiff, Miss Hutchins, was twenty-three years of
age, the daughter of a carpenter and builder,
living in the neighbourhood of the New-road.—
The defendant, Mr. Stulz, was a German tailor, and a
partner in a house which was well known ; the plaintiff
lived with her mother, her father having died some years
since, leaving his daughter a small independence. In age and
rank there was no disparity. It was true the defendant was
in better circumstances than the plaintiff, for having
a share in a profitable business in a house which employed
300 journeymen, he was enabled to keep a town and coun-
try house, and to live in a very handsome stile ; he was a
widower when he first paid his addresses to the plaintiff,
whom he had known in the lifetime of his wife.—
His attentions to the plaintiff commenced about the end
of 1822 ; and in the summer of the following yea::
finding it necessary to go to Germany for a few week*, he
kept up a regular correspondence with the plaintiff. The
letters which he had written during his absence would be
put in and read in evidence; and though they we written. in
broken English, and would probably excite a laugh, the Jury
could understand very well what the defendant meant to
express. After his return from the Continent the de-
fendant still continued his attentions, until the month of
November, 1823, when the plaintiff was suddenly seized
with that most fatal enemy to female beauty—the
small-pox ; the defendant was admitted to see her
during her illness, and that was his last ; he withdrew
himself from the plaintiff's society without giving the
slightest explanation of his reasons, though at that period
the wedding clothes had been actually purchased. Ile was
glad to inform the Jury, that the ravages which then
appeared in the plaintiff's face were long since worn
away, and though the defendant left her, conceiving
that she was no longer so desirable an object, she
was now as interesting as she had ever been. With
the feelings of a young woman who thought herself ill-
treated, she wrote a letter to the defendant, remonstrating
with him on his conduct, and to this letter received a re-
ply which proved that the defendant possessed considerable
cunning. The letter was as follows
" Dear Jane.—lt is not too late to make good my
promise, but it is not convenient to me at present to make
myself or you happy, I will not give up the miniature or
letters, for they make me remember you.—Truly yours,
"T. STULZ."

Now came the most disgusting part of the ease; the writ
in the present action was served on the morning of the 4th
May, and in one hour.afterwarda a letter was put into the
two-penny post, near the defendant's house, addressed to
Miss Hutchins, and containing the most filthy, bestial, and
abominable language ever written. The Court, he was sere,
would not allow that letter to be read for the sake of public
decency, but the Jury would see it. Witnesses would he
produced to prove that the address was in the handwriting
of the defendant, if the body of the letter was not.
Evidence was adduced in support of the plaintiff's state-
ment.

Mr. Sergeant Wuni addressed thejury for the defendant,
and called witnesses to prove that no part of the obscene
letter was in the handwriting of the defendant.

Yerdict for the plairAtiff...barnages, 1,0001•