The morning journal-courier., 1908-11-12
PRO MISE BREACH
 WILL COST $3.48
Clarence D. Hall of West Haven to Pay Same for Attentions Paid Fair Widow of
 That Borough.
PROMISED TO MARRY HER
Court of Extraordinary Jurisdiction Brings q Verdict Favorable to Themselves and the
 Judge.

Clarence D. Hall lost the suit brought by Mrs. W. E. Warner, both of West Haven, in the extraordinary session of the court held fin the Town hall and verdict of SPAS was award ed tho plaintiff, S8 to go to the jury and AS cents to the judge The suit was for breach of promise to marry
 After swearing in the jury the plaintiff and her witnesses proved a complete case of heart breaking jolly on the part of tho defendant which she, the plaintiff, took to be serious offer of marriage.
 The defense was that it was not the plaintiff but her beautiful niece that was badly wanted but that the plain tiff had an unfortunate habit of but ting in and making love to him.
 All the details of the case in their appalling audacity pleased the large crowd that had assembled to hear the suit tried and all laughed heartily in spite of the stern clerk of the court.
 Green KendriclS presided as judge, and barring his charge to the jury, was highly impartial. The attorneys were Charles K. Bush for the defend ant and Col A. V Newton for the plaintiff. Their oratorical outbursts outdid the best a United States su- premo court judge could put forth.
 aF N1a ly, tiff and her witnesses, all were plainly convinced that she, a harmless though charming widow, had been led to be- lieve that Mir. Hall seriously desired to plunge into the honeyed abyss of matrimony. She told several people so, as they testified, directly after he had asked that their brides should be joined so that they always could be tethered in the same stall.
 Then came the defense. He said that he had sent notes, it was true, to the plaintiffs niece, but not 10 the plaintiff. These were in bags of sugar, but the missing weight of sugar was not complained of as the sweet ness of the letters made up for it
 He sat up all night when calling on the plaintiff as he wished to tire her out so that she would retire so that he could see the niece whom he dear ly loved He heard this niece had been left S2,000, and so was asking the aunt about 1t when she fell into his arms and said, Clarence my all " At this he fled precipitately, pursued by his fears.
 MT. Hall seemed adverse to marry ing her or anyone, as he said that he wanted q wife who was like a sunnow- CT one that would shut up at night
 A celebrated alienlst was to have been in court to prove that the plain tiff was insane with a mania for pro- 1 posas The alienist was not on hand and will doubtless be fined for con tempt of court,
 one of tho witnesses for the defense testified that many of the most prom, inent and pious citizens of West Ha. ven had attended q dog fight the night the promised was smashed. He gave moving pictures in personcm of the fight, growing and biting like a l bull terrier.
 After an eloquent summing up by the attorneys, the court gave his i'm. partial CD charge to the jury. Al. though guilty of contempt of court the writer cannot help saying that fl was very unfair of the judge 10 tel the jury that the plaintiff deserved all their consideration and that fl there was lingering doubt in tho minds of any of them, and if they possessed minds, such doubt that the defendant shouldn't be charged $S.iE for his nefarious heart breakini should be dismissed. After a shor delibcration, the jury returned, wipinl their mustaches, giving the above yer. diet for the plaintiff