FULL TEXT: Miss Edith L. Ransom, a twenty-three-year-old Richmond, Va., beauty filed papers in a suit in Supreme Court for alleged breach of promise against John B. Woodward, an executive and part owner of a Chicago newspaper. He is a widower, about sixty years old, and while in New York lives at the Dearborn Apartments in West 55th Street, Miss Ransom lives nearby in the Hotel. No. 147 West 55th Street.
In
her complaint filed by her counsel, Thomas J. Stapleton of No 305 Broadway,
Miss Ransom alleges that Woodward asked her to be his wife while they were a
dinner in the Hotel Majestic, on June 20, 1920, and that he renewed this
promise in October of the same year while the were at a sanitarium in Summit,
N. J. Now, she avers, that recently he withdrew his promises to marry and
$100,000 damages.
Woodward
was served with a summons in the suit in his offices in the Times Building on
Wednesday
In a
letter to her lawyer, included in the complaint, Miss Ransom writes:
“After
several quarrels Mr. Woodward told me that he did not intend to marry me as he
had discovered that I had a very jealous nature, and that I got on his nerves
at times when I became hysterical after his quarreling with me.
“Due
to the disappointment and heartache and worry over the compromising position in
which I have been placed I fell seriously ill last summer in the Edgewater
Beach Hotel and can secure proof from people in Chicago that Mr. Woodward
introduced me to his friends and paid all my expenses while in Chicago at his
fiancee.”
Among
various letters submitted by tin plaintiff in her complaint is on the
letterhead of a Chicago newspaper, saying in part:
“Dear
Edith: You have great versatility in letter writing. In almost every letter you
write you show it. Sunday you pictured me as a your big wonderful man. Tuesday
I was a shrimp, not it to continue as your devoted pal, that on my return to
New York I was not to speak to you Wednesday
I was to prepare for the Wedding March and on Thursday I was a cold-hearted
villain who had forsaken his Princess and was rushing widows and vamps. Your
letters are always interesting and I enjoy them immensely.”
Affidavits
are submitted to Mrs. Margaret Ott, superintendent, and nurse, at the Esther
[?] Erbach Dr. Reinie’s sanitarium, Summitt, N. J., declaring that Woodward and
Miss Ransom spent ten days in adjoining rooms of the sanitarium and that she
held Miss Ransom out as his fiancée and it was understood they were to be
married next December.”
Miss
Ransom is an orphan, her parents having died when she was an infant. She was
reared in the .Masonic Home in Richmond, Va. During the war she was secretary
to George Creel, Director of the Bureau
of Public Information. It was while she was Mr. Creel’s secretary that she
first met Mr. Woodward.
[“‘About
60’ Asks 23-Year Beauty To Be His Bride; And So Miss Edith L. Ransom Sues John
B. Woodward for $100,000 for Heart Balm.” The Evening World (N.Y.), Aug. 4,
1922, p. 3]
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