The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-03
WAS BIG BREACH
Took S25O.0OO to Mend Broken
Heart of Actress.
Marquis of Northampton Set.
ties Out of Court,

London. July 3.-Two hundred and
NIFTY thousand dollars. and all the costs
OF the suit is the price the Marquis of
northampton has agreed to pay to set
tie the suit for breach of promise
brought against him by the actress.
Miss Daisy Markham, whose real name
is Miss Violet Moss. The costs will
amount to a considerable sum on ac-
count of a number of distinguished
counsel engaged to plead for the OPP
posing parties. The marquis better
known as Earl Compton, only recently
succeeded to the title at the age of 27.
The plaintiff is well known both in
Am erica and the British Isles under
her stage name.
The settlement was announced when
the case was called in the high court
of justice today in a court room crowd
ed with fashiona BILE women and ac-
tresses who had come in authorization
of listening to some interesting evil
dence- Sir Edward Carson, a former
solicitor general, and Edward G. Hem
merde, recorder of Liverpool and a
member of parliament, with two junior
barristers, appeared on behalf of Miss
Markham, who sued in her real name
of Miss Moss.
On the other side for the marquis
were Henry E Duke. a Unionist mem
beT of parliament; Frederick E. Smith,
one of the UnfoniSt leaders, and Ray
mond Asquith, son of the premier.
The engagement of all this legal tall
ent makes the cost or the suit m cunt
into tens of thousands of dollors.
The young marquis had previously
offered $500 to settle the case and
many people had thought Miss Mark
nam unwlse not to accept the offer
When Miss Markham insisted on pro-
ceeding with the suit London gossips
anticipated that she had a sensational
story to tell and interest in the suit
rose accOrdingly.
The damages agreed to today are the
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promise suit. As soon as the prelim-
mary had been completed Sir Edward
Carson informed the court that a set
tlement had been reached after con-
SultatiOn between counsel on both
sides.
Sir Edward explained that Miss
Markham met the marquis last year
when he made a promise of marriage
to her which was not denied. Sub
seQuently at the desire of his father
the marquis broke off the engagement.
In doing so he wrote Miss Markham
that he wanted her to believe his ac-
ton had been taken from a sense of
duty, genuinely believing it best for
both parties. When his father talked
to him the marquis wrote, he faced
me with the same thoughts I told you
of when L first loved you, which L have
ever since been trying to suppress"
The marquis further wrote:
You do not know how these So
called ladies will treat you and 1 really
could not bear to see you suffering it,
Oh. if / could but escape from my po-
sition, You will always be my ideal,
my beautiful dream"
The letter concluded Your broken
hearted BIN.
This was the Marquis of Northamp-
tons nickname.
Sir Edward continued that the Mar
quis of Northampton, had made pro-
vision for the lady such as she would
have been entitled to, had he made her
a warehouses He then announced
the settlement for the sum of $250, 900.
Henry Z. Duke, counsel for the defend
ant. said in confirming the settlement
that when the Marquis of Northampton,
who was then Earl Compton, asked his
fathers consent to his marriage with
Miss Markham he laid upon him an
absolute prohibition and took from his
son a solemn engagement that he would
not pursue his desire to marry the
plaintiff.