The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-28
Miss Ora GriSSo, Who Received $3.50
in Breach of Promise Suit.

Miss Grisso is a prepossessing
young woman of perhaps 25 years of
age and is a general favorite among
the physicians of the city for whom
she has worked. She was born and
reared near Overlook, moving to
Topeka six years ago. She has made
her home with her sister, Mrs. Ira
Radcliff since that time when not en-
ployed.
The man in the case, William R.
Arnold, is said to be a wealthy
farmer and stock raiser living near
Smith Center where he met Miss
Grisso three years ago where she
was on a case. She was again called
1906 to nurse Mrs. Charles Davis, a
sister of the defendant 1t was then
that Mr.. Arnold sought the hand of
the fair nurse whom fortune had twice
thrown in his path and pressed his
suit with the ardor of youth, as he
was just past Is years of age.
How we'll he succeeded may be
guessed from the fact that when Miss
GrisSo returned to her home in To-
peka she announced her engagem ent
to her friends and commenced pre-
parations for the wedding which was
giving last year. 1t may have been
the absence of Miss Grisso or the
presence of new face which cooled
the ardor of the groom to-be; at any
| rate his letters came with less regu-
larity as the time for the approach
ing wedding neared.
Finally one day less than a month
before the time set for the marriage a
letter was received by Miss Grisso
from her fiance: 1t was chilly and cold
and before she had finished reading it
she found that he had broken their en-
gagement without as much as an ex-
PLANTATION for the act She had planned
| for almost year for their future, pur-
chased a portion of the furnishings for
the new home which her prospective
husband had built for them at Smith
Center and almost completed her trous-
| seau.
She tearfu1ly told her intimate
| friends of the contents of the letter
and following their advice she filed a
| suit for breach of promise and the ver-
dict awarded yesterday comes as a
welcome balm for the lacerated feel
| ings of the young Topeka nurse.
| Back Of it all, and probably respon-
| sible for the broken engagement, is the
| affection which Arnold is said to pos
! sess for another Topeka nurse, Miss
| Edith Wheeler who it is said is engag-
ed to be married to the defendant in
| the breach of promise suit. The de-
! PENDANT denied on the witness stand
| that any such relation exists between
| himself and Miss Weaver.
| Miss GrissO Feels She Is INDICATED.
"The verdict was in one way a dis
appointment to me- said Miss Grisso
| this morning. land in another a VIC
| tory, for though I expected a much
| larger verdict I feel that I have been
vindicated. We had planned for such
a happy future and our home was built
according to the plans which we had
made together and never dreamed of
such thing as the engagement being
broken as it was.
He did not offer a single explana-
| ton for his act but there is no doubt
| in my mind as to the cause, though
never expected it at the time 1 received
| his letter terminating our engagement.
I wanted to forget it all and let him
| do as he cared to, but my friends in
| sisted that should carry the matter
| to the courts and the verdict which ]
| received and which will but little
! more than pay the expenses Of the trial
| is the result.
| az hated the notoriety which it
would bring to me and I knew that
| there was no way to avoid it but had
been Inundated in the eyes of my
| friends and although the verdict is
small I feel that have in a measure
been vindicated before my friends
/ The jury which was composed