Many a young man and young woman of New York was surprised to learn last month that the State had a law making "seduction under promise of marriage" a crime. Last week at New City, N. Y. concluded a sorry trial which had brought the statute to attention.
Sidney Herbert Homewood, 24, ran a modest riding academy. To it five years ago came a plain, tall girl named Charlotte Ariel Gibson, one year Homewood's junior, daughter of a local lawyer. Sidney Homewood taught Charlotte Gibson to ride, on the rolling bridle paths of...
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