Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-23
THE DAILY BEE-OMAHA TUESDAY, JANUARY %

her. She drlfted around front gotsl
tohotel, suppofing thateverybody here
wanted to marry a l. vingston Of some
kind. The girl vas introduced as Miss
Livingston at the Everett house, the
Springler house, and various other
places; but such was the corrupt char.
acter Of this age that the word Liv.
iugaton excited none Of those sur
prises which 1t had been wont to raise
among the parvenu families OF the
metropolis from the earliest times. So
the mother was looked upon as a grass
widow, notwithstanding she carried
the grand name of Livingston upon
her shoulders.
She finally went to live out at a
place called Toms river, in New Jer-
sey, where the Ltyingstons were en-
tlrely unknown. Actors and such
people came there and hung uuseemly
pictures on the walls, showing that
they did not know they we're under
the great roof of the Livingstons.
Finally Fleming came along and was
taken up to his chamber, aud saw the
aforesaid pictures; and 1t all at once
occurred to his mind that here was a
cheap Livingston of the real, blooded
stock, to be had at o moderate expen-
diture. 1t seems that, according to
the testimony, there was a playful
contest In the family between the
mother and daughter as to which
should yiald up the name of Living
ston to Mr.. Fleming. The daughter
was a little In the advance, and on q
certain evening Fleming took her to
q hotel celebrated for morganatio mar.
risges of this kind, called the West
| Side hotel, and there a true blooded
Livingston, without securing q mar
riage certificate or q wedding In Grac ,
church, fell from grace. Fleming, In
a plegmatic way, paid the bills, though
stingily. 49,.
Reading the evidence Of this trial
probably has tempted many q poor
fellow Into misdeeds, when he sees for
what q small sum of money the young
lady with the Revolutionary and pa
troon name gave up her charms and
%selt.respeot. For about a year Elem.
lug paid money, and then he would
pay no more, and would not marry
even a Livingston; so he was hauled
into court, and there the lawyer,
named Howe, made Miss Livingston
tell even the number of times she was
ravished. The suppressed testimony
In this case Is what has put the town
on its beam.ends, so to speak. The
young woman says that she did not
know what kind of a place she wal
going into, and was assaulted there,
and the entire Livingston honor taker
from her In a rufianly way.
A prominent telegraphic man wal
saying to me after this case: "Yor
ought to see the jobs put up by womer
in New York on rich men who prov
after them. Th,y come into our of
fee and telegraph to three or four mel
at once that they must have money
or, getting sick, anticipate the worst
etc. In this way one female creatur'
will bleed three or four men at tn,
same time, On the theory that each o
them 10 the father of the child, or 4
going to be accused of It,"
The case of Fleming against Mis-
Livingston was ruined by his lawyer
an English fellow of the lower order
who has been employed by dlsreputa
Bile parties, and those generally In tn
wrong. He insulted the girl o
grossly that the jurors In tn
box began to measure up tn
dollars they meant presently to asses
upon his client In Observation-Disclosures
During his low trade against an Amer
lean girl, said to be the descendant 9
the pure and great Chancellor Living
ston, he charged that her wioke
mother had not been put upon tn
stand to be riddled. The opposin
lawyer got up and told the jury tina
the seduoer's contemplate counss
knew that they had already obtaine
the mothers arrest Ia New York on
trumped-up charge to prevent her az
pearing, This settled poor Fleming
hash. The jury barely got out of tn
box, when they gave the daughter @
Robert Swift Livingston, and heir t
his old manor clocks and Dutch chin
and $4,000 in the custody of thi
city, the whole damages she aske
down to the last cent. 1t is presume
that clients here will now initial
the example of higher power
abroad AMI throw the Tombs lawyer
Howe, over the bar. The plaintiff
council, Robert s. Newcomb, dc
scribed Fleming as a heartless,
shameless rogue who, having the in
herited riches of industry and the az
petite of self-indulgence, though
nothing Of wrecking a young girl
virtue and then casting her aside. 81
knew she had no male relative n
father or brother-who could chastis
him as he deserved. Constituencies
Goddess, creedlesS, heartless, bloot
less, he had stolen Into a sacred ten
pie like a viper and now seeks to cree
away again, perhaps into some oth'
girls life to blast and darken thi
r also. If Fleming appeals the cas-
unless a jury a be packed, the 81
I will get double these damages.