The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-02-16
BREACH OF PROMISE.
THE HIGH-TONED MANNER OF DOING IT.
DAMAGES LAID AT $4,000.

THE Heightened MANNER OF DOING IT
| DAMAGES LAID AT $4,000.
A Danville Ill.) special to the Chicago
Tribune tells of the following spicy bit oil
matrimonial gossip: AS a premise to its
opening, synopticsl history of the breach;
of-promise case in which Sarah Jane
Mann is plaintiff and David S. Black
burn defendant, and which is brought
to this county by the latter on a change
of venue from Edgar county, would
not be smiss. The plaintiff asserts, and ex-
| poets to prove, that the defendant began 70
| pay her marked attention when she was
still q young girl, probably near sixteen
| years of age, and that for two years this
attention was continued when proposition
of marriage was made by defendant and ac-
cepted by plaintiff, but the defendant claim
ing that his father was so OD-
posed to the marriage as to disinherit
him should it be contaminated, begged
for time in which TO conciliate the old gem
, tleman. About this period, or when plain
tiff was Is years of age, she further asserts
that defendant, by repeated and renewed
promises of marriage, and other divers
means and arguments, accomplished her
ruin I; and for seven years a criminal inti-
macy was carried on-he meeting all her
opportunities, during that time, to have the
marriage solemnized by trivial excuses,
which, though far from satisfying her, accom-
plished his purpose by postponing their nup-
tials. About three years since, defendant
married another women. and plaintiff soon
began suit, claiming $4,000 damages. The
defendant, on the other hand, while not
denying that criminal intimacy existed be-
tween them, will endeavor to prove that
plaintiff was equally as kind to numerous
other parties in the distribution of those ia
vors which are the peculiar prerogative of
woman; that he never made offer of
ma ~ Qnns nd hot
argument were used to bring about such a
result. The parties interested both belong
to old, spected and wealthy families of
Edgar county, and have moved in the high
est social circles in the community in which
they have resided. Miss Mann, who is an
orphan, but enjoys competency inherited
from her father, is now about twenty-eigbt
years of age, OF fine form, elegant carriage,
and withal
A REMARKABLY HANDSOME WOMAN,
notwithstanding her years of trouble and
disappointment. A certain stern determine
ton to accomplish whatever she undertakes
seems to pervade her whole being; she talks
of nothing, thinks of nothing, but her suit.
At the same time, / am led 10 believe that
the money involved in it is of the least con-
sequence to her; but, fully realizing the sad
fact that her happiness has been wrecked,
her life forever darkened and she
/
which she once adorned. is it to be
wondered at that she should wish Justice to
be melted out, with no gentle hand, to the
author of all her mistortunes? The defend
ant, who is reputed to be worth nearly $780,
600, while his father, in addition, is very
wealthy, is a man probably thirty five years
of age, with nothing extraordinary about
him to attract ones attention, or TO cause a
stranger to give him a second look-sim plN'
plain, farmersh-looking man; his busi-
ness pursuits being confined to farming and
stock raising. For short time he
was captain in the war of the rebellion.
TIE cause has been continued three times by
the dafense-twice on plea of the absence
of impoFtent witnesses, and once by a
change of venue. Over one hundred wit
nesses have been summoned. The plaintiff
has retained Dan Voorhees,, of Terre Haute;
r. n. Bishop, James Fades and A. j. Hun
ter, OF Paris; and j. b. Mann, of this place;
while the legal talent in opposition con-
sists of Col. Baird, of Terre Haute; the Hon.
J. G.. Cannon, NJ. G. from this district; Col.
Van Sillars, of Paris; and Peter Walsh, Of
this city. The array oflawyers will insure
closely-contested fight.