The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-11-29
i WONDER IF CARL
REMEMBERS HOW
he KISSED Mel"
Telephone Operator, Suing Former
Lover For Breach Of Promise, In.
censed At His Statement That
He Probably Has Met Her.
Youth Held Her on His Knee and
Embraced Her Mother On Last
Visit To Home, Maiden Says.

so Carl Hockett only thinks he
remembers meeting me. does he!
wonder II he remembers how be
kissed me the last time he called az
my home, last July, and how he pull
ed me over on his lap and made me
sit there? Really, think there must
be something wrong with Mr.. Hoe
kett. wonder II he knows he's
alive
The speaker was Miss Louise
Minerva Hazard, the former tele
phone operator who started suit
against young Hockett in the Wayne
circuit court, Saturday, for $46,o0O
damages. alleging that he broke MS
promise to marry her. Miss Hazard
most attractively gowned, drew her
self up proudly as she discussed a
published dispatch from Boston quot
Ing Hockett, who now lives In Ux'
bridge, Mass. with respect to the
suit Hockett, II transpires, was
married six weeks ago to Miss Laura
Moore, OF North Uxbridge. whose
name figures rather prominently In
the litigation.
Hockett also Is quoted as saying
that II he did enter into the mar
riage contract, which forms Exhibit
A, In the suit, Ii Is not binding, as
he was under age at the time.
But have the better OF him
there said Miss Hazard, coyly
When he became acquainted with
me in July. 1907, he was only Is. but
ha vV,aAa ma hatiaua ha UNA Ha
certainly looked It. too. But | can
show that our engagement was still
In force when he became Of age, SC
he can't get out OF 1t on that ground
He wanted TO break of the engage
ment last summer, when he came
back from college. until he should
finish his education, he said. His
folks urged me to break II. but / did
not consider 1t fair that I should be
treated In that way after | had been
80 true 10 him for nearly three
years. told him I would positively
not consent to the engagement be-
ing broken of.
That happened while we were on
an automobile ride about the city.
When We reached home he shook
hands with my mother, kissed her
and said, Hello, mother just az he
used to do. That night he came up
again, but | had gone to bed. About
week after that, we had long
talk and went over the whole situa-
ton. That evening he displayed some
OF his old love for me. He kissed me
and held me on his lap and was
loath TO leave. That was our final
parting, though did not know al
the time IL was to be SO.
II had asked him about the girl
Miss Moore, and he had admitted
that he had been going with her.
asked him IL she knew he was en-
gagged to me, and he said yes But
decided to write Miss Moore and let
her know about II just to make sure.
That was the straw that broke the
camel's back. feel sure that Miss
Moore knew nothing about the en-
gagement, for she must have written
him as soon as she received my let
ter. ANYWAY when | called him up
q few days later he treated me very
coldly, and referred me to his law
yer"
To make sure that Miss Moore and
enlightened as to the al.
legged Detroit engagement, Miss Haz-
ard sent notices to Uxbridge and
papers, formally an
the engagement. These, she
believes. had the effect of hurrying
up Carl's marriage to Miss Moore.
But the other girl was not alto
gether to blame for Carl breaking of
with me. His folks had a great deal
TO do with It, | don't know what
they have against me, I'm sure, un.
less II Is that I'm poor. At first they
were real friendly. I used to go to
visit them frequently and they came
10 our house. Carl and l had our
plans all made to be married In No
gember, 1908. when his folks. who
we're then living In Iowa, sent for
him and bundled him of to school.
His mother wrote me. acknowledge
ng my engagement to her son, and
asking me to consent to postpone
nent Of the marriage until Carl fin
shed his studies. To this | consent
I'd, but | never have released Carl
rom his bargain And as for that
he made that voluntarily
and on his own suggestion"
Miss Hazard called on Carls peo-
Pile, who reside at present on West
after the young man
had told her the engagement was all
of, and insisted on reading some Of
his letters to them.
His mother tried TO smooth things
over" she says. She even got on
the car with me when | left and paid
my fare. She tried to persuade me
that II Carl were 80 changeable 1t
was probably better that should
pass him up. She patted me on the
back and told me not to worry; that
il was all for the best"
TODD.
Miss Hazard resides at No. 81
Harper-ave., east, with her parents
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