Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-09-30
The Breach of Pyomise Case.

Yesterday afternoon, after our report in the
case of Elizabeth Gresham agt. Bartram
LENS, for breach of promise. &c. closed.
MIR. j. Staley testified that he had con.
yersed with defendant after the alleged engage.
nent, and defendant stated thai his mother-in-
law objected 70 his marriage. LENS said that
be was sorry for the girl and said tina. At the
ume ne talked OF the marriage he was not
SOBER. On cross-examinatIon he said that
LENS TOLD MIN that after he made the promise
OF marriage he had found more about her, and
De could not marry her as she would not make
good m other tor his children.
The plaintiff here closed and the defendant
called j. kunkle, who testified as 20 the alleged
oeuothal, which he and all present regarded as
joke.
This morning Bartram LENS. the defendant
was sworn. de testified that the plaintiff was
once employed by his late wife as a domestic,
and remained too or three weeks: left there one
night with Messrs. Boyer, Grover, and Lem
Reel. He wanted Beyers 10 engage his brother
as bookkeeper in december, and staid there
until O'Clock. While there they got to Joking,
and kunkle joined his hands with Lizzie,
and said that they would make a good man
and wife, but he took it as a joke. Mr. kunkle
called for WINE and they drank. He never
visited her IN private; never walked with her
Oh the streets; did not have any conversation
win her alone. She came 70 his house with
the wash and staId there. He was very drunk
and LizzIe put him to bed, and next morning
Wnen be woke he found that he was in the
same bed with her. Witness here described
the location Of the rooms at length. Witness
Kept up his spree drinking with those about
the house. Lizzie drank too, and staid until "
O'Clock, when she took him mp STAIRS and tried
10 get his little girl out OF the bed, and the girl
refused, say ing that she wouldn't get ont She
then took Julius out of his bed, and in the morn
ing he found that she was next to him agaiu
Julius was that morning in Lem bed; was sure
that he did not take him out of his own bed
The thIrd day he got sCDer and told her to
leave the house. She SAID that she had no en-
ployment and refused to 60, and that night she
put herself in Julius bee next morning she
came down IN the bar room about O'Clock;
julius on the third or fourth night refused to
allow her to sleep with him. After this she
got key and went 10 another room. Witness
asked her several times 10 leave the house and
give him the key, and ne az last said he must
have 1t. She had the key Tor about three
weeks. Went up stairs tried the door, after he
mao told her to leave and had returned from
market, and pushed it open when she was
lying in the bed, and told her to leave the house
right away. Saw the boy 60 up stairs with a
bucket OF water, (he did not tell him to take il
up,) and The next thing he knew she had gone
Witness never invited her except on the first
evening she was there. Don't know of ever
having said to Mrs. Boyer that he had promised
10 marry her; never promised to marry her
She asked him on the third day to marry her
and he said that he would not get married uu
less his children and his father and mother.
IN law were satisfied.