The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-09-15
HER DAMAGED HEART.
Miss Lamoureux's Breach
of Promise Suit Against
William Ames.
HER LAWYER TELLS THE STORY.
How Ames Cut Out His eddy Old
Uncle and Gayly Went Yacht
ing.


Twenty-Five thousand dollars is very
neat sum to be possessed of. and it is this
amount that Miss Christine Lamoureux,
of Philadelphia, ASKS from William
Ames, of the Ames' Spike Works. corner
of Washington and Steuben streets.
Jersey City.
She wants the money to eheal broken
heart, said break being due, she says, to
the cruel and heartless conduct of Mr..
Ames. ~
They were engaged to be married, &C
-cording to her story, but Ames. probably
believing marriage to be failure, refused
to fulfill his part of the contract when
called on to do SO. For this breach of
contract Lawyer william Henry Lex, of
Philadelphia, through Counsellors Vre-
denburgh and Garretson, of this city,
have begun suit in the Circuit Court
against Mr.. Ames for S25, 900 damages.
/ went down to Philadelphia yesterday
and secured the following story of this
unfortunate love affair.
Miss Lamoureux is just past twenty
one years of age. She Is q very beautiful
girl, with black, brilliant eyes, and cheeks
that once glowed with the full tide of
youthful blood, but now are pallid. Her
hair is long, jet black and as soft and
glossy as silk. She is of medium height,
neither slender nor stout, and has the
light, vivaciouS way so natural to the
French. The parents of Miss Lamoreaux
were of that nationality, and she speaks
the language fiuently. When speaking
English she has the most charming little
she was left an orphan, while living in
Canada East She was then at school,
and she there completed her education,
which is excellent.
SHE MEETS HER FATE.
When she came to the United States
she attended young ladies' boarding
school to perfect her in her music and
other accomplishments. 1t was while she
was thus engaged that she became ac-
quainted with an uncle of Ames, whose
name was Hatch. This uncle was mar
ried at the time, but this did not prevent
him from falling dead in love with the
girl, who only laughed and poked fun at
him. The infatuated Benedict, when
visited by his nephew, William Ames, at
once introduced him to Miss Lamoureux
Ames is a broad shouldered, stalwart
young fellow of about twenty-eight years.
Of light complexion, good looking and
is we'll educated and of refined habits.
The family has been well known in this
county for half a century, and every men,
Der has borne an excellent reputation,
AS soon as he saw Miss Lamoureux he
became infatuated. He did not worry
himself about the evident regard of his
married uncle, but struck out boldly in
his own behalf. Mr.. Ames had his yacht
brought to Boston and day after day he
and the girl wens yachting or driving.
When she was not busy with her teach
ers of the arts her time was busy with
this professor of love, and she was will
ing pupil.
THE LAWYERS STORY.
Friday called on Counsellor Lex at
his Office in Philadelphia, and after
acquainting him with the facts in my
possession asked him IL they were cor
rect, and he replied that they were.
SIT was these yachting excursions that
caused much of the trouble that now
exists. 1t was then that Ames and Miss
Lamoureux lived together as husband
and wife, but they never went to house
keeping During the time of the illicit
courtship Ames introduced his mother
| and sisters to the orphan as his fiancee,
and it was generally understood that
they were soon to be married. Both were
apparently head over heels in love, and
for that matter, the poor girl loves him
now as much as ever"
"Was any objection made to the mar
rage by the relatives of Ames?"
"None. whatever, except Mrs. Ames
one day told Miss Lamoureux that she was
very foolish to marry William, for he
woule prove unfaithfuI to her The girl
laughed at this, and she and Ames had
one unbroken courtship until April 20,
when she received a letter that blasted ali
her hopes in life and made it burden,
when she remembered the sacrifices she
had made while trusting to his honor and
love-"
r - -
to have been written to the girl by Mr..
Ames The writer said that he had inst
returned from Nashville, Tenn, where he
had lost his fOrtuae in speculation.
"Oh, why did not | follow yours and
my fathers advice and be content with
making money legitimately without
and am broken hearted"
After thus making an excuse for break
ing the engagement with the girl, the
letter asks for release from it, and
says:-"When You send me written re-
lease, so that can show it to my mother,
she will send you 5000. "
He admitted in the letter that she ought
to have that money, for she had drawn it
from her slender bank account to COM
plete her accomplishments and fit herself
to be his wife.
RECOURSE TO THE LAW.
The young girl. nearly heart broken
with grief at this abrupt ending of her
romance, wrote him to the effect that as
soon as she could collect her thoughts
sufficiently she would write further and
give him an answer to his proposition,
but she did not want the $780, After she
thought the matter over she determined
that he should not cast her aside in this
manner and Counsellor Lex says:-"She
entreated him to save her honor and
marry her, which he refused to do"
"At about this time" Mr.. Lex said,
"Ames was very friendly with the wife of
well known Bostonian, whose husband
has since begun divorce proceedings"
lis Mr.. Ames made a correspondent"
j asked.
mot that know of, he answered.
Miss Lamoureux finding that Ames
was determined to not marry her, con-
suited Lawyer Lex, and he advised
bringing the present suit for damages,
and she consented Mr.. Lex told me
that he had host Of witnesses to prove
that Anes had promised to marry
the girl, even after they had been unduly
intimate a long time, and that he had
documentary proof sufficient to convince
any jury that the girl had been sadly
abused and injured.
''She is entitled to heavy damages"
said Mr.. Lex, for she has striven hard to
prepare herself TO be his wife and fit her
self for the station in society which Ames
and his family FILL"
"What Is the reputation Of Miss La
moureuxs" / asked.
"Good, excellent; IL could not be better.
She In now living with Mrs. G. Watson,