£l000 FOR JILTED WOMAN.

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 27, 2 February 1937, Page 9

£looo FOR JILTED WOMAN.

BREACH OP PROMISE AOTION. “I would have staked my life that he would not have let me down,” declared a woman in a breach of promise action at the London Sheriff’s Court, Holborn. Stated to have been jilted after a jaurney of 6000 miles from Vancouver to marry a traveller whom she had known for eight years, Miss May Lighterwood Hamilton, aged 32, claimed damages from Mr Derrick Casson. aged 33, of West Acton, and was awarded £I,OOO. Mr Cyril Salmon said that Mr Casson had admitted his promise to marry Miss Hamilton. They became friendly in 1928 in Vancouver. In 1935 Mr Casson told her that he was in a position to marry her, and in May of this year she camo to England. “You can imagine her feelings,” said Mr Salmon, “on being Jilted after all this, and spending her life’s savings on her trousseau.” Ring Bought. The marriage was arranged for June 6 and the wedding ring bought. Mr Casson suggested that the marriage should be postponed until August and Miss Hamilton agreed. She visited a married sister in Glasgrow, and the thought dawned on her that Mr Casson was trying to back out of the marriage, so she wrote “exaggerating her fear of becoming a a mother.” Later she wrote a letter to Casson that she was in perfect health, adding “I have loved you so much. I think there is room for forgiveness for telling a lie. I only did it thinking I might lose you for ever.” Two days afterwards Mr Casson told her that he did not think they would be happy and that he was not going to marry her.