Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-06-16
C|DDY old WOOER
MUSTNAKEMONEY
HEAL SORE HEART
Judge lnstructs Jury That
Case Is Proved Leaves It
To Fix Damages
HOBBLE SKIRT STYLES
REFUTE HIS TESTIMONY
He Had Testified She Had
Thrown Her Skirts Around
Him, This In 1916

| New York, June 16.-Miss Honora
May O'Brien win be awarded damages
for her experience with the tickle heart
of millionaire Frank B. Manning, her
| 84 year old wooer. Justice Cropsey in
supreme court, so instructed the jury
hearing the evidence today.
Justice Cropsy told the jurors they
must consider an agreement for mar
riaee had been entered into and that
there is no question but that this agree
ment was broken.
On these grounds, Justice Cropsey
said. damages should be assessed in
keeping with Manning S financial and
social standing.
Punitive damages are also warranted
he instructed the men, ON three points,
Manning charged, he declared, thefe
was conspiracy to get money without
marriage. This, he said, had not been
proved. Second, he said, Manning de
clared the girl had insisted on a pre-
vious settlement and he said this had
not been proved. Third, the charge that
the girl never intended to wed was not
proved.
wouldn't t Cover Hairpin
As Miss O'Brien 8 attorney address
ed the jury, she wept copiously when
lher unexpected publicity was brought
unto Inc proceedings She sat up in sur
prise when he declared, to refute 6
charge by Manning, that Miss 0 ,Brier
never threw skirt over the old man {
head on the night of his proposal,
! HThere WASH t skirt made in New
York in the winter of 1916 that you
could throw over a hairpin," he de-
clared.
The "a year old defendant appeared
in court today almost jaunty after his
spirited word fencing throughout last
nights session. He had admitted that
much OF the palsy with which his
hands seemed shaken, and much of his
halting walk was assumed, simply be
cause he had been told that the jury
might be impressed with the contrast
between fresh, vigorous, rosy checked
Honora May O 'Brien and his own de-
crepit old age. This admission out Of
the way. Manning gave the cross ex
amining lawyer a vivid exhibition OF
his elearness of mind and native shrewd
ness tinctured with a quaint philosophy
and humor
Miss o 'Brien s attorney went at the
witness hammer and tongs. He got
Manning frankly to admit that he did
not consider himself "feebl> o!a
man, > and that he had "chased pho
tographer half block and smashed him
cross the back with cane" Manning
confessed he had kissed the fair plain
tiff-but not many times, as it was q
sin to kiss girls and get them to think
ing of me. He laughed in humorous
ehuckles in relating the game of euehrt
in the Manning home when he and Hon
ora May playfully put the stakes as
possession Of himself-and May wor
me, Z" as he expressed it, Throughout
all the examination he carefully de
Tended Miss o 'Brien S truthfulness, but
always insisted that he began to gel
suspicious that the o 'Briens, Honors
and her brother, were trying to ''in
yeigle him into marriage.
The millionaire laughed heartily il
describing this attempt to ''inveigle.'
q After we played cards one night
Miss O 'Brien suddenly got down and III
bucl1led my shoes. I dyni want yol
to do that; it ism t nice She said sh'
wanted to show me what she could Dc
for me and what a comfort she woulC
be for me. Then she swirled her skirt
about me and swamped nle, throwing
line down on the sofa. I told her tha
was wicked and not to do it again
that il WASH t nice. She laughed anC
turned on her heel