The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-04-18
BROKEN HEARTS AND HOPES.
IN OCTOGEN1RIfN FiRMER SUED FOR
BREfCH or PROMISE
Twice Refused and then Acceptcd-The We'd
ding Day Appointed-rhc Groom Missing-
Twenty Thousand Dollars Cash Wanted.

Tho court room in New Brunswick, N
j.. was crowded at the trial of the breach
Of promise case Of Gulick ag;. Gulick before
Judge Scudder Peter ". Gulick is farmer In
his eightieth year. residing Mt Plainsboro. In
Middlescx county. The plaintiff. Miss Mary
J.. Gulick. who is in hcr forticth
year. shortly after the death OF her moth
or in Jersey City in 1873 went to visit
her relative. Aaron Gulick at Plansboro. There
she met Uncle Peter Gulick. who was her second
cousin. He invited her to visit him also. and
the result was an invitation 10 her to make her
home with him and his daughter permanently
In January Of last year. rs she AYERS. he pro-
posed marriage to her: the day and hour were
1xed Uncle Peter himself engaged the minis
ter: the day arrived but Uncle Peter did not.
Ho refused to perform his agreement. and Mary
Louisa sued him for 100000 damages.
Mr. Winfield. Mary Louisa's counsel. showed
~ the hev. Amzi Armstrong OF Dutch Neck that
Uncle Peter had visited n Sunday school picnic
To engage him TO perform the ceremony NJ the
parsonage in August last thnt ne Uncle Peter
failed to appear a the time appointed he visited
and that tho interview was somewhat con
strained through the presence OF Uncle Peters
daughter. Mary Amanda. ut whose suggestion
The plaintiff. Mary Louisa. testified Tint I'm.
cls PeiGr three times offered hcr marriage.
her heart to refuse him the third time. which
was in January. 1871: that she thereupon,
d"rming II improper to remain under his roof
while the marriage was pending. moved to I'm
cle Aaron Gulick's. two miles away. where he
visited her three or four times a week until the
day was named I'm August. She described the
poignancy Of her feelings when Uncle Peter
played her false. her subsequent illness. and the
set terms in which she upbrpided him when she
met him driving to the mill few days after
ward.
Uncle Peter Gulick denied under oath that
he had ever asked Mary Louisa to be married
TO him. He said that she was after him from
the time she became an inmate OF his house
until she finally packed him of to get the min =
lister. She told him that he had promised her n
give II To her. aud II h" refused she felt like
throwing herself under the train and letting
the ears run over her. Uncle Peter created
much merrmcnt in the court room by his
winfield pressed him on cross-oNaminatiOn
ABOUT his wooing. He accounted for his fire.
quent Visits To Uncle AarOns after Mary Louisa
took M her residence there by saying that he
went to do chores Tor Uncle Aaron but he had
TO laugh outright NJ his predicnment when he
was forced to own up that he did no chores for
Uncle Aaron before Mary Louisa moved there
nor after she went away.
Mary Amanda, the next witness was en-
phhtic In condemning the acts Of Mary Louisa
IN attempting To capture her father after all
they had done for her She had noticed her
father state OF nervous excitement for some
time. and when she lenrned of the proposed
marriage the day before the time appointed.
she persuaded Uncle Peter to shave himself
and 60 with her To- Princeton, instead OF fulfill
ing his promise to Mary Louisa
Cathnrinc Christ. who visited her daughter n
domestic in Uncle Peters service described
how she found that all the folks were away from
home except lnclc Peter and Mary Louisa. and
how she saw Mary Louisa with her arm around
Uncle Peters neck.
The Jury retired at L o'clock Yesterday morn
Ing. and have not yet rendered II verdict.