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Show uu BREACH OF PROMISE SUIT FOR $100,000 Xew York, Feb. 21. Post cards, on which wore written forvent protestations protesta-tions of affection, figured prominently today In tho ?100,000 broach oTprom-Iso oTprom-Iso suit brought by Annetto Bertha Grunspan. a pretty young Parisian, against William English Walling, a wealthy Socialist and writer of Socialistic So-cialistic topics, in tho supreme court. The trial began yesterday and .Miss Grunspnn's testimony went to show that Walling met her In Paris and proposed to her half a dozen times in as many uiiicrenb t;uropean countries. coun-tries. Mr. Walling Is now the husband of Annie Stmnsky, nn authoress. The plalntlfT today Identified a number of post cards nnd letters claimed by her to have been written by Walling. They did not bear his signature however; being signed "Revolutionary;" "Revolution-ary;" "Kouclouszkl," and "English." They bore dates from July to October, 1905. Miss Grunspan's counsel read' some of them. One of thorn, dated Warsaw and signed Kouclous2kl, bore tho following; "I beg ofyou not to work. I feel like a criminal should you do any work. Think of mo as of yourself. Love to you and I kiss you -warmly." On nnothcr was "written: "Everything golnj; well. The revolutionary rev-olutionary movement hrlsk. I wish I could see your beautiful smile. I hopo to take you to London, November Novem-ber 1. You aro such a good child that I love you moro than over." Miss Grunspan testified that she was only 7 then. She explained that Walling wantod to take her to Lon-don Lon-don In order that she might learrt English, so thHt when thoy wero married, mar-ried, his "little sweetheart child ' could spoak his own language. "He paid. for m schoojlng in Paris and London and my other bills," declared de-clared tho young woman. "I studied in Sir Isaac Pitmann's school in London, Lon-don, and also studied m.nnors and otlnuotto so that I could be prosontn. ble to Mr. WalHng's friends after wo "tverc married.' ' |