, 1879-02-09
BROKEN VOWS.
Miss Sarah in Pursuit Of Harry G.
Goodrich.
She Alleges He Promised TO Marry Her,
and Failed to Perform,
Mr. G. Admits that He Wrote Her Some
Rather Soft Letters,
But He Enaphatically Refuses to
Be Scared,

BuL 11C A4A1t1410tl~01iy E1G4uSGS I(
Be Scared.
On the I'D OF October last the records Of til,
Circuit Court contained the bald uotice that :
suit had been begun BY one Sarah S. Forbe
against Harry G. Goodrich for $4,000. Wha
the suit Was for was left to The imagination d
men TO figure ont, and the conclusion mos
natural, from the TACT that the opposing parties
we're male and female, was that it was anothe,
case Of DardwcIl VS. Pickwick. Time skippcd
on, and still no further light was shed from the
luminous pages Of the Court records. Along
about the last Of January, however, the p]ainti1
fled her declaration, and the above conclusion
a5 TO what 1t all meant was verified by the tuat
1er which it contained. Tile ground for the
suit was an alleged breach Of promise on
the part OF the male to mate with the
female, according to the rules and usascs of civ
;lized society and in the manner prescribed by
some one OF tic dozen or more marriage scry-
lies.
IN HER DECLARATION,
Miss Forbes set out that, on the lst of October,
1916 in consideration that she would marry hlu1
the said Goodrich, he faithfully promised lie
would marry her when be should be thereuuto
thereaftcrwards requested. Confidinx in his
promise she has ever since remained unmarried
and willing to accept him, but he has never
offered TO fulfill his engagement. Then,
to make the case still stronger, she
teecats her complaint in different form, charg-
ing Itat lie promised to marry her within q rel-
souablc time, but has failed to do SO. Then
third time, in order to give thin no loophole of
escape, she alleges that lie promised, OH the 1st
Of October, to marry her within a reasonable
time, and that she subsequently requestcdhi to
keep bis engagement, bnt he refused. In consc-
cueuce OF which she regards herself damaged to
tue extent Of about Slu,O0o.
This was the trouble in nutshell, according
to the lady in tE. case Unexplained, it put the
defendant in rathcruncnyiube light, and none
the less so when it was remembered that MIR.
Goodrich was not what m:ht be said
m to Fe b. ephcr gPPy Po an but on 51k s Soan
gentleman Of mature years. who has been
married for something like . quarter Of cen-
tury, and has given hostages 10 society. as one
might say, besides having benefited mankind
by discovering Bodine, by the invention Of Ger
tain attachments to sewing-machlues, and, more
latrerly, an ingenious arrangement known Us
an indestruclible aud waterproof boot and shoe
sole It Was therefore due to Mr. Goodrich to
hunt him up aud give him
CHANCE TO EXPLAIN HIMSELF
and set himself right before the community.
Accordingly reporter made pilgrimage to
Lit tDlE-4aElO1t kCSLC1ud34 tNuuA 94t N0OQllEIls
told him what was in The wind, and wanted Mm
to uubosom himself. He did 50.
''Nhy,;' said he, g. supposed this was all
done with. Last fall this woman filed notice,
or some such sort Of tbing,-1 amt lawyer
alld don't know just what to call it,-of SUIT
against me for oreach OF promise. Well, Il day
Was set when Sue was to put III a deciaratiou,-
give particulars, or something OF that sorr,-
aud Was thtre that day. No declaration was
put in, and 11iat confirmed me in the conclusion
fI,uf cfa sroc YrY1f,r Yr of
NE, and thought the notice would scare me.
Bit don't scare worth d cent: Welt, now, this
is her latest suppose she got tired Of witt
ing, aud thought she'd stir me uo little, AMI
Try to scare me sotuc more. Again, don't
sr1re worth cent. In fact,
REFUSE TO DE Scared
WON'T be scared under any consideration. It's |
simply case ol blacs,nai, nothing more nor I
less and refuse to be b1cd one CENT" !
lheh you never made her uny promises to |
Ked?"
"Sone in Gods world.'' |
Wei. what do you know OF her! Tell us
nll you know about it."
She used to work for the Nilsons-the sew
tolks-ip New Orleans. They dis
pcused with her. and she came up here and tried
to get work, and appealed to me among others
to help her. had place on Adams street
then,-Has making attachments for sewing
and she told such story that I
sare her work. Well, she was alwaFs wanting
landlord was going 70 turn her out of doors if the
rent wasn't planked down right of. Vel, pitied
her and gave her the money. That opened the |
door for further applications, and they were not
EonS IN coming. sometimes she would write |
aotcS-and-well-in short, [ was consarned /
FOOL ENOUGH TO WRITE BACK TO HER;
sent her letters back and put mine inside of !
hem. But didn't make any promises to her |
II marriage, anything Of the kind Just pitied
her, and was-Well-l guess, pretty sentimental. !
fou see, she knew how to liz herself up, and
make believe she was just ready to 60 to the
and helped her"
Sort OF gave yourself away, eh?''
~ les-aade daIneo fool OF myself; scnther
etters back, instead Of keeping lem, and wrote
LET these notes besides.H
t.They don't compromise you, do thcy?'
Not at ail, but l suppose she expects to
make something out of 'em,-thinks can be
nade to come down for the sake Of getting 'em
'ack, or something OF that kind. but amt
'ue OF the scary Kind, and it won't do her any
.0od."
:" FELL, who is she, any way2'
i" When she worked for me her name was
ilnnie S. FORBES. Now / see she goes under
he name Of Sarah. She had been married.
but she got divorce from him, and her law
er then is the same person that's looking after |
hls thing now. Last July, guess, she adver-
!sed in the News-..ither she did OF somebody
4sc 04u-lnat CERTAIN person n1d
LETTERS FROM "u. c. G.,''
'hch II. c. G." might be desirous of obtain
lg and which might be had By replying to the
avertisement and making IN appou, meut, or I
omething OF that Kind. Well, that little I
.he.nc failed, and then she wrote to my wife
aat she lad letters from the and that they I
light be Of sufficient interest to me in finan-
At way to make me dcsirous Of obtaining them. !
= vile asked TIC about it, and I told her tic | I
mole story, and ] h:.ycu't heard anything | !
oout her since until th1s business in the courts 1
eean- Al SHE wanted was to make ue come +
owl, but wouldn't do it. and uow she thinks
&c can bleed mc by begiuning suit againsI me
= breach Of pro1lise. Eut this won't work, c
tncr, and When she finds it ont she'll quietly |
fihdraw the suit and pull out, rather !
ian l'sye her record shown nD. Her na,nc's in I
IL D. B. DIRECTORY, and she "a just as soon not z
ave nerrrcord shown up. As for any promises
mafrF her, that's all bosl,- I never made her
y p!omises,-becn married myself twenty-five
cs peyer did anything more than to
s'p 4 ncF when she came and pleaded poverty, as y,
nave told your
And alr. r.Goodrichrepcated his firm detcrmina- c
on-as firm and unyeldns az one Of the inIc- 0
ucll{e and waterproof sole; which lay before f
m-aot to be buldozed, scarua, and hled o5 !,
woman VIM had stl,1rhf u dn those tfjnrs | u