The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-30
Breach Of Promise.

Miss Jennie G. Wallace, of Palmyra, has
brought suit in the New Jersey Supreme
Court to recover $50, 900 damages for
breach of promise of marriage from Isaiah
S. Hatch, of Delair.
A summons has been served upon the
defendant, who must answer to the suit at
the September term of Court
Miss Wallace is niece of Josiah Wal
lace, who died few years ago leaving an
estate valued at 100000, and most of it
to his niece and nephews. She is hand
some girl of % years, and is well educated.
In her bill of complaint Miss Wallace
declares that Mr.. Hatch had been paying
attention to her for more than two years
and she grew to love him fondly and deep
lily. She knew that he came of good
family, one of the oldest and best-known
in Camden county, and when he proposed
marriage she accepted him. She says
their engagement was sanctioned by her
widowed mother, and it became generally
known among their friends Indeed, she
had begun her preparations for the pros
pective wedding, although no definite date
was set
Miss Wallace says that she will produce
many letters, acknowledging the relations
between her and Mr.. Hatch, when the case
comes to trial. She also has a handsome
engagement ring, in which is engraved
the inscription: II. s. H. to J. G. w" and
some months ago their engagement was
formally announced in a Palmyra news
paper
Miss Wallace declares that she trusted
Hatch implicitly and believed that they
would be married as soon as he could ar
range his affairs. He put her off from
time to time, however, and at last ceased
to call upon her or even to write her, and
when she besought him to keep his VOWS
he turned her Off She says he now stead
lastly refuses to marry her and she has
learned that another has supplanted hel
in his affections Miss Wallace is repre-
scented by the law firm of Gilbert & Atkin-
son.
The suit will be actively contested by
the defendant, who has engaged Henry M
Snyder, of Camden, as his counsel. Hatch
who owns considerable property, resides
at Pea Shore, and last Spring he was the
Republican candidate for member of the
Camden county Board Of Freeholders from
Pensaukin township. He was defeated
by Gottleib G. Wick, Democrat, of Mer
chantville, who has been a member of the
Board for years
The defendant in this interesting suit
admits that he paid attention to the plant
if, but denies emphatically that he ever
proposed marriage, or that they were evel
engaged to marry AS to the publication
in the Palmyra newspaper of their pro
posed marriage, he declares that he hat
nothing whatever to do with it; that the
announcement was made without his sane
ton or knowledge, and that he took par
ticular care to deny it in the next week.
issue of the newspaper. He says he ha.
no knowledge of how Miss Wallace be
came possessed of the engagement ring
she says he gave her, and which is said tc
be engraved with the initials T. S. H. tt
]. G. w" He says he never bought suct
ring, and never gave it to the fair plant
if. He asserts his belief that the presen
suit is brought to prevent his marriage tt
an estimable young woman, and to haras
and annoy him.
Friends of Miss Wallace declare, on the
other hand, that she has good case, ant
that she can prove, at the proper time
that an engagement of marriage actual,
existed between them, as Mr.. Hatch's let
tiers admit it. They say she has stead