New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-03-19
APRaMIsE OE MARRIAGE.
eerdicE of Twenty Thousand Dollars tor
Alleged Breach Of Promise si Marriage
Against u Lawyer.


ALLEGED Breach Of Promise Of .narriage
Against u Lawyer.
IFrom the New York Herald
az all the strange revelations touching
ebe curiou. undercurrent of some human
lives made in our courts there is rarely one
presenting such singular features as were
SeyeIoped Yesterday in a case submitted to
thejuGicial arbitration of Judge SedgWick.
of the Superior Court. As Will be seen,
only one side of the story is thus far gwen;
lint the conclusion at which the Judge ar
rived, after listening 10 the recital OF facts
ma given. clearly Indicates at least his I'M
Y,licIt reliance in its credibilitv. 1t was
Gothing more nor less than a suit for dam
pges brought BIZ Miss PhGbe 4. LoweTe
AGAINST A. d. Chalmers, q lawyer. for al
legged breach OF promise of marriage.
Miss Lowere. the lady in question, -
about twenty three years Old, OF preposSe's
ing appearance. She was PLAINLY out
neatly dressed, and her manner OF telling
her story, so unassumingly and mOdestly.
and vet painfully was it given, was such as
of once TO excite the most heartfelt sym.
rothiAs of all present. Her tather-suCh
was her stOry---n former years was I'D anu
Rnt circumstances, but reVerses III business
overlook him and he became poor and un-
able 20 stand up against the shock OF aa-
verse fortune and died. Succeeding ms
Ncatn hGI mother HdFlHB' p'SihCs hCAScI4'
another daughter and a son to support,
Opeped a boarding house. This wa. in
1861. Among the boarders was Dr. Magln.
Orrsent rector of St. Adams Church. The
latter introduced new bOarder. Abraham
4. Chalmers, young lawyer. MI Chal-
tners speedily protested himself greatly
rnarOred of her, and in course OF time
marriage engagement was entered INTO Oe-
sWeen them.
cent at tho time, but he wrote letter to
hcr TO read to her mother on her death-ued,
Selling her mother not to feel uneasy on
her account as he intended to marry her.
and she should never be without pr0tec-
tor. The engagement continued, and tax
an. advantage of 1t and her weakness, ne
Scduccd her. Meantime he had written
letters to her, cOuched in the tenuerest
uhraseology of loves passion. a change
came over the spirit Of his dreams, and one
slay he demanded these letters, and she
gave them to him. and he east them into
the crate. where. like his love, they turned
60 ashes But this was not the worst. Soon
came the intelligence OF his marriage 10
another. This was the final crushing blow.
and the only remedy lett her was redress
shrough the courts.
Various other witnesses gave thelr eVl-
,Ienre. They all testified how Chalmers
had confessed to them his marriage engage
ment to Miss Lowere. Their rectals were
but the 'old. old story" 80 often told IN
cur courts.
MIR. J. ID. Mitchell, of Syracuse. conducted
Shc examination for Miss Lowcre lie APP
peared for Mr.. Terrence, her former counsel,
Having promised TO do so, as the latter lay
On his death-bed Mr.. Ely appeared on
behalf of Mr. Chalmers, but during the
progress of the examination had not word
TO say.
The court directs verdict for you,
*iss Lowere, for 100000 damages said
Judge Sedgwick, in conclusion, and so
ended this case, which, from the account
given of it, certainly has as high claim to
BE- designated "a strange story" as Bulwer's
far. famed fictitious narrative of this title.