The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-12-07
SHATTERED HOPES.
MAID OF FORTY CHARGES A MAN OF FIFTY
WITH BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE
THE PLAINTIFFS AFFIDAVIT

MAID OF FORTY CHARGES MAN OF FIFTY
WITH BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE
THE PLAINTIFFS AFFIDAVIT
In the Essex County N. ~ Circuit Court yesterday.
at Newark. the preliminary steps were taken in
suit for breach of promise of marriage. the alleged
facts of which form very singular story. The plain
tiff is Miss Anna Horwath. who has reached the ripe
age of forty and resides at No. 1875 Bruce street.
Newark. The defendant is Mr.. John Boisinser.
of No. 70 William street. who has long been
employed foreman i'll Peddie's trunk factory. is
vice president OF the German Hospital Association is
prominent German Free Mason, and is. until
recently possessed of property worth about $4,000
He is about fifty years of age Miss Horwath. who is
also German, and has lived a domestic for many
years with family on Park street, lays her damages
at $4,000.
HoRwATHs STORY.
From the plaintiffs affidavit and the statements
made by her counsel. Mr.. Samuel Kalisch. to the
Court it appears that Mr.. Beisinger and Miss
Horwath became acquainted before his wife died
and when she on her dying bed. Miss Horwath
states that he made advances to her them which she
repealed. saying that she could not receive visits
from him while his wife still alive. The wife
died and buried. Soon after, the plaintiff
alleges, Beisinger began to call steadily on
her, and professed the highest % esteem ssI. and
called and declared. she testifes. that he
was tired living alone, and that she must be
satisfied that he desired to marry her. She says she
asked him ii he he had seen enough of her
to satisfy himself that she would make him good
wife, and he replied he had; that he was satisfied
from what he had of her that she would make
a good and faithful wife. His wife had made him
promise on her dying bed that he would remain sin
gle year. Therefore" said john Anna alleges,
zone year from to-day you shall be my wife,"
THE OLD STORY.
From this she continues. she "enthuscd with
great confidence in the said Beisnger and in the
ccrity of his promises of love and Affection" Suisse
quently he said lie had made up his mind to marry
sooner-that year too long to wait. Still later,
she alleges, he prevailed her. by assurances that
she was then to him the same married. to submit
to his embraces. On the 18th of September he
called her, she AYERS, and said he had
concluded not to marry her because he was
Free Mason the had been worshipful Mas
and his Order forbade him marrying with Catholic.
she being one She asked why he did not mention
that before and why he had taken advantage Of her.
His reply was she alleges. that he had found some
one that suited him better.
Then she instituted suit for breach Of promise Of
marriage against him, laying damages at $4,000. AT
the inception of the suit however. she alleges. he
called her and begged her to discontinue it, saying
that the Free Mason story simply joke aud that
he certainly intended to keep his promise and marry
her. At first she says she refused, but finally, upon
his giving her promise in writing. she instructed
her counsel to stay proceedings. The promise which
she alleges he gave her, written in German. ran
follows:-
S as soon join
"HE MARRIED ANOTHER"
Besinger renewed his visits and the intimate rela-
tions he had established with Anna as she alleges,
visiting her almost daily until October 80 when he
again said the marriage could not take place. The
doctors he SAID had advised him that it danger
for him to marry; that to do would send him
to untimey grave. He requested, she
says in her affidavit, that she would re-
turn him the paper above quoted, but she
refused She wrote q letter to him Offering
to so with him to doctor and if the latter said in
her presence that he ought not to get married she
would release ihim. He declined the proposition,
she says but offered her $500 il she would release
him and she refused it, 1t not his money that
she wanted. she said Finally, she AYERS. he married
and is living with her at No. rs William street.
Newark. Hence the suit
Miss Horwath says that she is determined this
time to press the matter before the Court. It is
stated by her counsel that Beisingcr recently. but
prior to his marriage to her, transferred to Miss
King (now Mrs. Beisinger) eleven building lots aud
passed to his daughter the balance of his property.