The evening world., 1890-03-19
SAYS SABELLA'S TOO OLD.
0larionet Player Miskell's
$4,000 Fate with the Jury.

The suit of ffty-eight-year old Miss
Isabella Brady against young Clarionet-
player Thomas Miskell for $40. 900 DAM
ages for breach of promise of marriage,
afforded considerable amusement for the
spectators In Part III. of the Superior
Court, before Judge Truax. this morning.
The plaintiff was born in England In
1892. came to this city in 1888 and now re-
sides ut 225 East Tenth street. Miskell.
who. Miss Brady says. lacerated her feel
inRa to the extent of 10000 ducats. by
declining to wed her in 1888, is IS years
old and . clarionet player at the Olympic
Theatre, In Harlem.
Miss Brady's testimony, which was
begun yesterday afternoon, is an inter-
esting tale of how she had fortune
which she had lessened by several hun
dred dollars. in procuring Miskel's par
don as q dererter from the British Army.
She also said she nursed Miskell through
long illness, and on his recovery he
asked her to trust him with her money
matters, When she declined he left her.
The fair plaintiff wants reparation for
q trousseau, $4,000 worth Of furniture for
q house and $3.50 wedding ring from
1iffany's, which she says were oil pur-
chased by her. because on May II. 1885,
she had consented to marry him.
The court was crowded when Miskell
was on the stand to-day. He denied that
he was engaged to marry Miss Brady or
that he ever promised TO marry her. His
testimony was to the effect that the matri-
monial anxiety was all on Miss Brady's
side, and that life had become q burden
to him from her persistence in following
him about and insisting that he should
marry her.
He said that when he was at st. Au-
gestino. Florida at the Ponce do Leon
Hotel in 1888, he receiAed two letters from
In reply he wrote her the fol-
lowing dated on Jan. l6 1888;
This ~ more like palace than a hotel and
l. one Of the kind you read OF in Arabian
The climate is delightful and I am sitting
air and listening to the colored people sing
ing outside.
T have had my name changed in the mu-
scAl directory and wish in the future to be
addressed by my proper name.
This letter was written after his pardon
was obtained from the Queen. He said
that his birth certificate was sent here
from London after he had paid the legal
fees, E5 and 5s., through Miss Brady.
He said thatth second time Miss Brady
went TO EnBlanu bne OueTeu 10 pay his eI-
penses il he would accompany her.
She wanted him to assist in having her
transferred from the Bank OF
to this country. He refused 10
go because he had not the time to spare,
While abroad she visited his relatives,
and wrote him letters threatening TO sue |
II he did not marry her.
Miskell said that he earned $I7. 50 a |
week, and expended about 81 for car fare, |
He never told her that he had saved |
81 900. He had $3.50, but that was sWal- |
owed up in the trip 10 Europe.
Miskell was cross examined by Attorney |
Randall this morning. but vas firm in his |
iOnial that he had promised to wed Miss
Brady.
At II. 80 O'Clock Attorney Abe Hummel
began summing up for Miskell, finishing
II ~. 10. 1t took Attorney Randall twenty |
minutes 70 sum up for the plaintiff.
Judge Truax the addressed the Jury for
en minutes. making q very fair charge |
or the defendant, calling special atten-
ion to the fact that the plaintiff had
,alled no witnesses 10 prove the fact OF
her statement that Miskell
lad promised TO marry her.
The jury retired at IA AZ.