The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-09-12
From the Boston Evening News Letter.
The Boston Case of Breach of Promise
A Curious story.

The Boston Case of Breach of Promise
A Curious story.
A breach of promise case, promising the
most curious and extraordinary revelations,
is now the talk of the town-and as the SUBJ
ject has obtained oLoriety through the news
papers, we shall be held blameless for telling
what we know of the matter. The parties
all rank among the fashionables, and, what
ever may be said of the case in point, enjoy
the highest respectfully, and the profound
regard of the best people in the city.
Some years ago, DR.. Amos Binnby, of Mt.
Vernon street, marred an accomplished lady,
cousin, bearing the same surname. The
families of both were wealthy, and the united
fortunes swelled the aggregate to a highly
respectable monetary figure-suflicent, at all
events, to place the pair beyond the prospect
Of future want. II is true, unfortunate spec
ulations at one time reduced the fortune of
the Doctor some 100000, but he rapidly
recovered that amount in other speculations
in which he turned out more successfully,
Mr.. and Mrs. Binnby lived in .all the enjoy
ment of connubial felicity for many years,
when it pleased Providence to call away the
Doctor to another and better world The
widow was left with all the charms of a ripe
and graceful wonanhood, and all the golden
beauties Of an ample and unincumbered for.
tune.
The season for mourning over, in due time
a trip to Europe was proposed. The party
was composed of several Boston ladies and
gentlemen distinguished for their wealth and
social position-the names of whom it is I'M
necessary to give. 1t is sufficient to say that
they were the dUe of Boston society, and our
readers may imagine the style of the entire
tour. In the course of their rambles, they
of course visited Italy, and the widows heart
was touched with a youthful and undying
flame of attachment to one Moses Tngler,
Bostonian now living in Dorchester, we be-
lieve, and hearty, good-lookng specimen of
a Yankee gentleman, numbering all existence
of some forty five summers. Letters passed
between the parties of sufficient warmth to
attest the character of the attachment that
had sprung up in that love- burthened realm
-an oren avowal took place---Mr. Ingler
proposed, was accepted, and the inseparable
knot was to be tied on the return home after
the European turn. Mr.. Ingler, in expecta-
ton of the reward in store for him, proceed
ed Immediately after the declaration, to as
sumo the responsibility of several little pecu-
MARY liabilities, and INDUCED in several ex-
cnsable fancies that the truth of the Scriptur-
al injunction, "Cast thy bread upon the wat
ers, and it will return to thee after many.
days." could not be doubted.
He planned excursions, led parties took
his hand at the skulls in tue little fairy
skiffs On the Lake of Como, scaled Vesuvius,
peeped into and took drop of the "crater,"
feed and cursed the lazzaroni, pummelled
the Positions, expostulated with the land
lords, kicked the man-servants, petted the
maid servants, and, in short, made himself
generally useful as the guide, protector and
exclusive friend of the bewitching widow.
So far, so we'll. The widow was no doubt
grateful for these unmistakable tokens of
self-sacrifcing affection, and her accepted
sutton, but too happy to be the means Of af-
fording the slightest pleasure to one for
whose personal charms and real estate he en-
tertained such profound devotion.
The party returned home. The widow
came to Boston, Tilted Moses, and married,
some six months since, the venerable physi-
clan and surgeon, George Hayward, of Penn
berton Square. Very naturally, after conclud-
ing not to blow his brains out, or take to the
intoxicating bowl, the disappointed lover
swore vengeance. But how was it to be ac-
complished?
He engaged the Hon. Rufus Choat, and
Hon. Peleg w. Chandler to commence a
suit at law against DIR. Hayward, in behalf of
his wife, ior breach of promise Of marriage,
and laid the damages at $4,000. The pa
pers are all prepared, and unless the affair
be compromised, as it is ntimated it will be,
the case will be tried on the return of the
happy couple from Europe, whether they
have gone to spend the hours Of full and
wcll-matured honeymoon.