AN IRISH BREACH of PROMISE CASE. A breach of promise of marriage case was tried at Dublin, on Friday, before Baron Fitzgerald and a special jury, the plaintiff being a Dublin boarding-house keeper named Tallon, and the defendant a young man named Thomas Hassard, a person of good position, connected with an old county family in Fermanagh:â�� In 1860 the defendant went to live at the plaintiff's boarding house, and formed an acquaintance with one of the plaintiff's daughters, Esther Mary. In March the defendant promised her marriage, but his conduct showed that he never intended to fulfil that engagement. In November last, while the present action was pending, he forced his way into the plaintiff's house, and con- ducted himself in a most extraordinary manner. At one time be pretended to be a maniac, and cut the strangest pranks and capers in the house, and then declared there was no necessity to bring the action, as he would marry the girl, and settle£ 200, a year upon her; and then, after a pause, asserted, "1 have married another woman, and can't marry her." Finally he left the house, saying he would put on a red coat and go off to India. Subsequently he sent a message by a Captain Burke that he would marry her and afterwards, at the time he was instructing his solicitor to prepare his defence, he sent a valen- tine containing some very pathetic rhymes about constancy, upon the truth of which the plaintiff's daughter placed no credit. The defence was that Hansard was a wild, uncertain fellow, who never knew his own mind, and had a. habit of courting almost every girl he met. The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff-damages, £300. 9th July 1864 The Aberystwith Observer --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus