The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-06-09
LA w INTELLIGENCE.


CRIMINAL CoURT.--Hon. Henry Stump Judge.
Milton Whitney, Esq, States Attorney, prosecu-
ting. The following business occupied the Court
on yesterday:
State rs. John Robinson, convicted of burglary,
in teloniOusly entering the store of William B.
Reed, West Baltimore street. Motion for a new
trial argued and overrued by the Court Sen
fenced to be confined in the penitentiary for five
years.
George Hutchinson. Richard Davis and Thomas
Kelly, indicted for larceny, were arraigned and
pleaded not guilty. Counsel were assigned them
and day fixed for their trial.
Bennett Jones (negro) and Catherine johnson,
(negress,) charged with robbing the store of G.
klineielter were arraigned and pleaded not guilty.
The Court adjourned until this morning at ten
o'clock.
SUPERIOR CoURr.-Hon. T. Collins Lee, Judge.
The following occupied the Court yesterday:
Anne b. Herring IS. James Baugher. An action
to recover $4,000 by the plaintiff, against defend
ant, for breach of promise of marriage.
d; II. Hopes for plaintiff; William B. Perine
for defendant
Mr.. Perine, for the defendant stated to the jury
the facts in the case pending, upon which they
would ask verdict, to the effect that the defend
ant, former resident Of Baltimore, had visited
Mechanicstown, in Frederick county, in the year
1853, and there making the acquaintance of the
plaintiff, they became mutually enamored; vows
passed, and the parties became engaged to be mar
| ried afterwards, the defendant was called from
Mechanicstown by his parents and returned to
Baltimore in September, 1854; that correspon-
dence kept up during the period of nearly one
year. in most of which time the defendant express
ed great affection and determination to fulfil the
engagement. During the latter portion of this
time, however, the worldly prospects of the defend
ant materially changed, and, together with the
opposition to the match manifested by his mother
he was induced to write to the plaintiff stating the
condition in which he found himself placed asking
her forgiveness for the apparent wrong done her,
| and desiring the engagement to be broken off To
these letters 1T was alleged the defendant never
ceived replies, and therefore thinking that the
silence of the lady was paramount to absolution
from all pighted VOWS, he left the neighborhood OF
Baltimore and took up his abode in Virginia in the
spring of the year 1856, where he became acquaint-
ed with a lady to whom he married in the
spring Of 1858. The defence would ask verdict
on the ground that the defendant by cOnsummatng
the marriage would have been disiranchised by his
family, and also that not hearing from the lady
after his proposition to annul the promise of mar
riage, it was tantamount to consent on her part
to break off the match.
! Mr. Hopes, for the plaintiff, said they would
show by letters that the defendant had promised
marriage and had for almost year. in the letters
expressed great affection for the plaintiff bu
afterwards had endeavored to break off the
match. The plaintiff denied not having replied to
the last letters, proposing to annu the marriage
promise, and asserted the of delay in bring
ing suit arose from the fact that the plaintiff die
not know the whereabouts of defendant until after
| his marriage.
The first letter offered in evidence was dated
Baltimore, September lst, 1854, from de
fendant to the plaintiff in which he Expresses great
love, and more sadness for being compelled to leave
the lady; that he had got daguerreotype take1
for her, while in Frederick one eve of which was
little bleared owing to tear rising while sitting
| for the picture.
| The second letter was from defendant to plaintiff
dated Baltimore, September 9th, 1854 in which ht
acknowledges the receipt of letter from plaintiff
which made his heart leap for jov, and took hin
| back to Mechanicstown, where he had spent Sc
many happy moments by the side of his dear Anne
he hopes that, when she is with the gay
and happy throng, she will sometimes think of one
who adores her and intends to make her happy ht
desires her to have no scruples about writing heI
sentiments towards him freely-"the more free the
| better'-and winds up with-"yours only, in life
| and in death"
The third letter was dated Baltimore, September
Sth, 1854 from the defendant to the plaintiff in which
he expresses deep regret at hearing of her sickness
and advises her not to go out of nights more than
she can help, as the dews very heavy; says h
sometimes mixes with the gay and beautiful but
his heart always reverts to his own sweet girl il
Frederick county; thinks it Providential that they
continue loving and loved, and that they are en-
| gagged to be married
The fourth letter is dated September 18th, 1854
in which the defendant says he is going South ant
requests the lady to write to him at Deep Creek
Norfolk county, Va; that he would rather go hom,
with his beloved; that he goes South to wait ON ,
couple who are to be married.
The fifth letter is dated Deep Creek, Norfolk
county, Va, October lSth 1854, in which the de
fendant says he has had very pleasant time, anC
only wants one person present to complete his hap
piness says the bride looked well; that two week
| OF married life had improved her wonderfully; tina
he expected soon to clasp his beloved his bosom
there to remain until one or both are laid in tn,
cold cold tomb
The 9th letter is from the same place, dated No
vember l4th, 1854, in which he says he has waite'