Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-05
WANTS MILLION FOR
 RREAcH OF PROMISE.
Miss Cassie Mansfield Doty Sues Will liam, Edgar snlith-Romance Started al Eastern Point.


 The Hotel Griswoid was the scene of the alleged marriage engagement. in 1911, which is the basis of the s1,000.- eco breach of promise suit filed by Miss Cassie Mansfield Doty of New York against William Edgar Smith. also of New York, in the supreme count in New York Friday The figure mentioned in tIse complaint Is the largest a New York court has ever been asked to grant in breach of promise suit.
 Tn her complaint Miss Doty claims that Smith asked her to marry him July IS, 1911, and that Feb. of the following year was fixed as the date of the wedding, but that shortly before the date of the marriage he hatly re- fused to marry her.
 It is claimed that in 1911 MT. Smith and his mother were spending the summer at the Hotel Griswold, and that. having known them all her life and being fond of them both, she ae- cepted an invitation from Mrs. Smith to be their guest there. It was at the hotel that Mr.. Smith asked her to marry him, and she consented, al- though at the time she did not know all the circumstances surrounding his affairs.
 These circumstances are, as shown ! in the court records, that Mir. Smith, who had been married before, was di- vorced from his first wife, Mrs. Louise Curtis Smith, in Reno, July 14, 1911. The very day before that, July 13, was the day on which MT. Smith asked Miss Doty to marry him.
 Miss Doty, in an interview with a
 New York paper, says:
 | T did not know that at the very | time he asked me for my hand he was Sf cd o1f cr17 <@f 1 course, I knew he had been married. You see, when his mother invited me l to visit with them at New London she told me that he had already been di- vorced, and he also gave me the same i impression. If l had known that he
 was still married, I would not have gone to the Hotel Griswold in the first place.
 'But he didn't, and so promised to marry him. I really do not want to go any more intimately into the case | Whatever else there is to say will be shown by the papers which my attor-
 ney, David R. Simpson, filed today" On the evening of the proposal MT Smith presented to Miss Doty a hand
 some and costly engagement ring, heI complaint alleges. She spoke of having a formal and public marriage ceremony
 to which she might invite her friends I He told her, she charges, that she
 might go ahead and make all neces- I
 she says, purchased an elaborate trous- seau.
 But shortly before the date set fos
 the wedding in February, 1916, she
 realized, she says, that MT. Smith did
 not intend to carry out his part of the
 contract. Her complaint then goes on:
 When he hatly refused to marry me on that day, without giving me good
 reason, lost an advantageous mar
 rfage, one that would have given me mfr-1 T--- great wealth. He disregarded my af-
 lection, wounded my spirits blighte6 my life, 1acerated my feelings and
 spoiled my entire future.
 T have allowed more than foul years to pass in the belief that MT
 Smith might fulfill his promise,'' sEn said, 'but recently have come 10 the belief that he did not intend to do so and consequently felt that I should have recourse to the law. Yes, in tend to go through with the suit an6 shall not hesitate to take my <placl upon the witness stand and tell albou
 my friendship with and betroJaal t ] 1dr. Smith"
 Miss Doty lives at the Hotel You
 raine, No. Thirty ninth street He mother and Mir. Smiths father wer first cousins. She is a grandniece O { Gen. Joseph Mansfield, distinguishe, union commander, who was killed a
 the battle of Antietam Another grand
 uncle was CoVernor Buek1ngnam o l Massachusetts, known as the Flight ] ing Executive of that state. She i a. woman of comfortable means, wh g has spent most of her life in this cit 1 and New Haven.
 Mfr. Smith Is a resident Of the Wal 2 dorf- Astoria hotel. His father, WzIIfar 3 Van Rensselaer, Smith, was one c s those t'inconspiucou millionairess' tha 2 New York so frequently produces. Tn a extent of his fortune, S, 500 ,00O, amaze e the town when his will was mad 2 public.