Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1912 — A BREACH OF PROMISE CASE. [ARTICLE]

A BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.

Prominent Citizen Charged With Trifling With a Widow’s Affections. For some time, it is alleged, one of our prominent citizens has paid more or less attention to ayoung and beautiful widow of this town, forgetting, or at least not heeding, the advice of 1 • the Immortal widow to his son Samuel to “beware of the vidders.” ’He now claims that be was not serious in his intentions and that he A was not attached to her, but however that may have been the widow became attached to him, and as be seems to have lost interest in the matter she has attached his property, which is a form of attachment that he does not enjoy. The result is that he finds himself the defendant in a first-class breach of promise case and his questionable attitude toward the widow will be given an airing in the near future. The parties in the case are so prominent that it is feared no court room will hold the vast crowd desirous of attending the trial so it will be held' in Ellis Theatre, on Monday evening, February sth, under the auspices of the Ladies’ Aid Society of the Christian church, for whose benefit the proceeds will be devoted. In other words it will be a Mock Court Trial, and it promises to be one of the most enjoyable affairs of many years, as a large number of our leading people will participate in the proceedings. The committee haying the trial in charge have engaged A. V. Newton, the well known lajyyer-leeturer, of Worchester, Mass., to attend to. the details and personally conduct the. entertainment Col. Newton has had remarkable success in conducting similar entertainments and without doubt the Breach of Promise Trial will be here, as elsewhere, an event long to be remembered with pleasure.