JWB Breach of Promise incident

[jparkuntz]

I wonder if anyone can help me identify the incident referred to in the attached very poor quality clipping from the Philadelphia Sunday Mercury of April 16, 1865.

It refers to JWB promising to marry a young woman of Philadelphia, near Arch St., which caused Gov. Packer of Pennsylvania to request that Gov. Henry A. Wise of Virginia surrender JWB to face that charge.

Further, it says that Philadelphia lawyer Robert M. Lee, Jr. "connived" to get JWB out of that scrape.
This had to have occurred in 1858-1860, if the governors named were involved.

Lee Jr. was born in 1836, and would have been 22-24 years old. He later practiced law, but in 1858-1860 I believe he was still clerking for his father, Robert M. Lee Sr.

Do you know the young woman's name? Or have you run into Booth's connection to Robert M. Lee Jr. before?

Jerry Kuntz
Warwick NY