The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-06
BRITISH JEHUS ARE
MADE TO JUBIlATF
One Marries an Heiress,l Is Rob-
bed of Her, Sues for DAM
ages and Receivers.
slobe Speeia1 FOREIGN Service.

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away with susceptible heiresses and
many of them have profited by their
chances. But heretofore there has
been one very serious obstacle to the
complete success of their matrimonial
aspirations. The heiresses seldom
stick. Their folks usually cut up
rough and persuade the hayward
brides to leave their humble spouses.
Now aspiring Jehus may find rene
dy for this-or at least substantial
financial consoiation--in what. may be
termed a New Declaration of Coach
mems Matrimonial Rights" as laid
down by an impartial British Judge
and enforced by a stolid British jury
Hereafter, if the relatives of an heir
ess who elopes with coachman get
around her and pour into her ears har-
rowing tales of the misery that follows
ill-assorted unions, and work upon her
feelings by conjuring up pictures of
broken parental hearts, the coachnlan
to use the language of one Of them,
"can jolly well sue the blooming toffs
and stick 'em for heavy damages"
Albert Edward Smith is the name of
the coachman who, by establishing this
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double obscurity of the con1monest of
patronymics and a humble calling, and
and placed generations of coachmen
yet unborn under lasting obligations
to him. The legal battle has just
been fought and won at the Leicester
shire assizes, before Mr.. Justice
Wright.
In December, 1901, Smith fresh from
service with the Imperial Yeomanry in
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coachman with Mr.. Robert Walter
Kaye, a country gentleman of good
family and good purse. Shorty aft
erward the heiress came upon the
scene in the person of Miss Edith
Kaye, Mr.. Hayes sister, a progresses
ing damse1 of twenty -four, we'll past
the age when a girl is supposed to be
legally capable of fully understanding
what it means to take man for bet
ter or worse"
In his testimony Smith, scorning to
'perjure himself like a gentleman" af-
firmed that a declaration of affection
first came from the girl herself. And
the letter produced in court seemed to
bear him out In one she wrote:
CAS- I have not heard anything from.
YOU. 1 don't know if my Ietter'I wrote
last Monday was forwarded or not. L
take it that it was not. I can't think
that you would ignore it. If it is
that you are holding out against me.
don't, don't do it; give int is killing
US BOTH"
In another the love-sick maiden
thus vented her feeling:
Il may tell you my feelings toward
you will never change to my dying
day, and even then that which feel
for you will pass on with me to the
next world. Love comes but once"
In subsequent epistle she be-
sought him to hold fast to me If you
think I am worth it. About this
time it. seems she inherited from an
aunt a legacy of $4,000 with a re-
versionary interest in larger sum.
Possibly this may have had something
to do with Smiths conclusion that she
was worth it, though on the witness
stand he indignantly repudiated the
base suggestion. Anyhow, they were
married.
Before this took place, he testified,
Mr.. Kaye tried to induce him to marry
a servant girl. 81 told him." he said,
proudly, ''that I would marry the girl
I loved, and marry her I did,"
Don't you think it remarkable that
young lady should fall in love with
her brothers coachman?" asked one
of the counsel
mo, sir" answered Smith, eve are
all of the same flesh and blood. Such
cases have occurred many times in
this world. And he added, with an
eye to the chances of future coaehmen,
mo doubt many such cases will occur
again"
And the society ladies in court with
maria geable daughters, shuddered.
Three days after the marriage, Mr..
Kaye accompanied by Mr.. Charles
Bernard Robinson, brother-in-law of
the bride. and a detective paid visit
to the coachman's humble domicile.
The detective engaged Smith in con-
versation in the backyard while the
stairs. When the detective got
through talking to Smith, the latter
discovered that in the interval his
bride had left the house in cab with
Mr. Kaye and Mr.. Robinson. Since
then he had been unable to learn any
thing of her whereabouts or hold any
communication with her. Wherefore
he had brought suit against Messrs.
KAYE and Robinson for "enticing
and wrongfully harboring his wife"
edith, do you realize what You have
done?" Mr.. Kaye testified he said to
his sister. "You will break the hearts
of your father and mother. You can
not possibly exist in these surround
ings We have come to take you
home"
He denied that he had used any
force evidently believing that if he
had used no force he could not be
mulcted in damages. But that is
where he speedily discovered that he
was mistaken, and therein lies the i'm
portance of the verdict to coachmen
who may hereafter wed heiresses.
Force" said the judge, has moth
ing to do with it. Persuasion is the
thing"
In his summing up, the judge en-
phatically laid down the law as to the
inalienable matrimonial rights of
coachmen who capture wealthy brides.
Difference in rank and station be-
tween the contracting parties to the
marriage have nothing to do with the
case" he said. "A duke may marry
a dairymaid or dairyman duchess,
but the parties have all equal rights.
Smith, the coachman, is entitled to
all the benefits of his marriage. If
the defendant went to- his house to in
duce his wife to leave him and per-
suaded her to leave him they have
rendered themselves table,
After that the only question left for
the jury to decide was what damages
they should award the coachman. They
agreed on $4,000. And now eoachmen's
situations are in greater demand than
ever.
Women Choose Lovely Badge.
ST. LOUIS. Mo-, March 5.-The board
of lady managers of the Worlds fair to-
for for