NEWSPAPERS: McCarthy vs Heryford, Jackson County, Oregon

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Medford (Oregon) Mail, Friday, 19 Sep 1902, p. 2

WANTS $70,000 BREECH OF PROMISE.

James D. Heryford, one of the cattle kings of Lake county, has been sued in
the U. S. District court by one "Birdie" or Bessie or Grace McCarthy (she
went by all three front names), for the trifling sum of $70,000, as a balm
for the laceration of her feelings, mental disquietude inflicted by said
Heryford, by reason of his refusal to carry out a promise to marry the
"Birdie" aforesaid. Miss McCarthy hails from Wayne county, Mich., is a
school teacher, and it was while following her profession that she became
enamored of Heryford, and entered into the agreement with him, the breaking
of which on his part has so injured and damaged the plaintiff that $70,000
is absolutely the only thing that will relieve her. Heryford is a widower,
past 45 years of age, and has three children by a former marriage.