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Show WINS BfeEACH OF PROMISE Girl Awarded Damages Against Former For-mer Alderman. ( HI' AGO. Nr 15. k Jur toda returned re-turned a erdl. t .f $!r..,'i In faa.r of Miss Mabel Beland against John iNel. a former Alderman and prominent contractor, con-tractor, for bre.u h of promise of mar-ria mar-ria ge Miss Beland was for several years an inmate of O' Nell' 8 home and continued to reside there as his housekeeper after tne divorce of Mrs O'Neil from her imc-bund. imc-bund. She brought stilt, claiming that o Nell had promised to marry her and demanded 160,000 damages for his failure to do ;to. O'Neil denied the charges absolute!, ab-solute!, and fought th case to the end. |