The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-04-27
MISS POTTER'S
ROMANCE ENDS
Sues ". \. Gross for $4,000
for Alleged Breach Of Promise
HE MAKES EMPHAT &c [ENIAl.
Interference Of Members Of the Defendants
Family Ruined Her Cherished Hope The
Plaintiff Declares.

New York. April 27-WNliam III. Gross
denies that he ever promised TO make
Miss Helen Potter his wife. She insists
that ne made the promise. and because
he broke 1t, as alleged she IS suing him
for S50,0oo damages Her case will come
up for trial In the Supreme court within
a week. She will be represented In court
by Abraham II. Hummel and Mr.. Gross
attorney will be Stephen s Marshall,
of White Plains.
Mr. Gross has admitted that he was
once fond OF Miss Potter and that he law
ished money upon her, but he insists that
he never reached the point of suggesting
Ti1atrimony. Mr.. Hummel declares tnat
letters in the hands OF his client prove
conclusively that an engagement existed
and that Mr.. Gross was persuaded by his
family 10 repudtate a woman whom ne
wished 10 marry.
In her complaint Miss Potter swears
that the promise Of marriage was made
In December, 1897 and she has since re-
mained single and ready TO fulfil IL AZ
ter making the promise she says, Mr.
Gross repeatedly vowed that he loved her
and she placed implicit faith I'm him. She
ala not place her case In Mr.. Hummers
hands until --r. Gross had told her that
she could never be Mrs Gross
ways has been unwilling 10 marry her.
lie says he gave her the property No.
1886 South Hollywood street, Philadel-
phia, paid her sl25 I'm cash, ass gned TO
her fourteen shares OF stock I'm the Mel
rose Land and Improvement company.
and settled debts OF hers amounting to
$500. lie insists that she has no possi-
bic claim upon him.
lie is well known i'm this city. though
ri MI ~ IL Ia, 4 an
Mass. Miss Potter first met him in tho
fall Of 1893, when she was on her way 10
Philadelphia with her friend. Miss Min
ME Boyd. who had known him. Miss
Boyd introduced them on Cortlandt
street ferryboat. and they went To Phila-
delphia on the same parlor car. He ask
later he appeared at Miss Potter's home.
No. ZIG West Thirty-ninth street.
At his nVitBtion, Miss Potter says un-
der 9th. she and Miss Boy subsequently
went to Lee and remained for a time
there at the Morgan house. Miss Pot
ter met the members OF his family and
when he asked her 10 marry him she con
sented After "a visit 10 his home. In
December 1885, he returned to New York
and informed nor that he had told his
mother that the wedding would occur
before the first Of the year
lie received a letter on Christmas Eve
from one OF his brothers begging him In
his mothers name not to marry. on
the same day he received al the Hotel
MtlIOIblft Niflt nc was llNlUKt 1illN ltlf-
gram from n relative:
Don't do as you intended when YOU left
home MARY RAMBO.
lie is then said To have told Miss Pot
ter that his financial position did not
warrant him I'm getting married I'm oppo-
sitlon 90 his family, and he suggested
that the ceremony should be postponed.
She agreed. she says and the wedding
waNput on from time 10 time until the
following october. when she became dis
gusted with his prccrastination She
then saw him IN Lee and informed him
that he should keep his repeated ana
solemn promises, As he again suggested
delay she placed hcr case in Mr.. Hum
meis hands.