Barton County democrat., 1913-10-10
WILL SHOW LETTERS.
Correspondence Admitted as Evi.
denee In Breach OF Promise Suit
Of Miss Mamie Legg.

denee In Breach OF Promise Suit
Of Miss Mamie Legg.
Trifle with the hearts Of other peo
pie Il you want to but If you want
to fight shy Of trouble, don't put
your expressions down on paper.
It's an old saying that It is bet
ter to walk a thousand miles than
to write one letter, and this is es-
pecially true II you happen to be
trifling with some ones affections.
Mis- Mamie Legg, former res
ident of this county, now living : in
Hutchinson, has been gaining consid-
cradle publicity lately on account
Of damage suit which has against
druggist Of Rocks county for
breach Of promise. Concerning the
case, the Hutchinson News of lRst
Friday has the following:
Love letters and correspondence be.
tween Miss Mamie F. Legg, a Hutch.
inosn stenographer, and R. ]. Nc
Clay, a druggist of Plainville, Rocks
county, will be presented to the jury
In the breach of promise suit now on
trial in the district court.
Miss Legg is suing the Plainville
merchant for $1,000 damages, charg-
ing him with breaking a promise
to marry her, and becoming wed to
another.
Mr.. McClay is 81 years old and
was a widOwer making his home
with his two sons, associated with
him in the drug buiness in the Rocks
county town. He had lived in that
town for 35 years. His wife died 7
years ago.
Miss Legg was an expert stenog-
rapher and bookkeeper in the Plain
vile mill office. According to the
story of Mr.. McClay, it was she her
self who made the first proposal Of
marriage.
1T was in September, 1911, that
Miss Legg asked Mr.. McCAy why
he did not marry said his counsel.
She said she suggested il for his
own sake. Following that sugges.
tion they did talk of getting mar
ried, and there came to be an unl
Iderstanding that they would marry
Miss Legg had a claim in north
eastern Colorado, and while ther,
she suggested to him that he nigh,
get her a diamond ring. She wrote
You can treat it both as an engage
ment ring and a Christmas present
You know diamonds are always in
creasng in value and it will be
good investment, anyway. :. -; g
!, Following this suggestion he puI
chased her a diamond ring and pre-
= sented it to her with the under
J. standing that it was an engagement
J. ring.
> But later, according to the couu
sci OF Mr.. McClay, love cooled. Fo
some reason Miss Legg did not Ell
courage the woOing of Mr.. McClay
e Finally, in January, 1912, she unea
It pectedly came to Hutchinson an
!, took a position here as stenograpt
Vt er for a milling company.
d MIR. McCIay frequently wrote her
d urging her to return to Plainville an
J. marry him, said his counsel. He n
7, peatedly requested this in letter a
], ter letter, and tried to prevail upo
e her to marry him. but she paid n
attention to his petitions.
N She entirely ignored and refuse
o to answer these urgent requests ths
ii she return and marry him. mstea
t her letters discussed only trivial ma
g ters. the weather, gossip about tn
n Plainville people, and the like. Sh
s made no reply at all to his entrea
O les.
e These letters, both his to her am
IS the replies she made will be offere
m in evidence.
2 Finally, Mr.. McClay decided the
B. regard the engagement at an en-.
s He later became acquainted with al
3: other lady and was married to he
,e .sone night, while he was in Hutcl
d nson attending the st4te cOuNentiC
" OF the Rexall druggists associate
S last year, he was surprised by b,
Ing served with notice Of the II
D. ing Of this breach Of promise sui
Mr.. -McClay is stubbornly contes
Ing the case and refusing to pay an
II damages. He insists that it wa
her fault entirely that they wei
not married and that he did all b
D. could to bring it about. He dispute
that har faalin1s houo Lo 49,.