The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-01-16
BREACH OF PROMISE.
The President Of tho Petroleum
Exchange Sued for S75 900.
The Sad Story Of an Heiress. Only
Twenty-One Years Of Age.

Miss MARY AltCc hiuuut Living
stone, of slender ii cure, lustrous blaci
eyes ami modest demeanOr. is plaintiff
in the Kings county supreme court il
a suit before Justice Pratt, for SO ,OOt
damages for breach OF promise of mar
riage against Henry Fleming. presi
dent of the Petroleum Exchange. The
plaintiff is accompanied by her mother
Mrs. Eyaline Bliss. Both we're richly
dressed in blacs silk and they had
with them a bIi ght baby boy. Mis-
Livingstone wa. dressed very bec1m
ingly. Her hair, which fell in ringlet:
about her face, was covered by a bl'
of millinery from which dropped q
pink feather. Her mother, VINO re.
lains a youthful appearance. wa
painted and pencilled. Miss Living
stone is The daughter of the late
Judge Robert S. Livingstone, OF
Duchess county, who died owning
much property in ;his city. In july
last, when she became of age she i'll.
herited a large fortune. 1t has been
currently reported that she Was a
daughter of G. Livingstone. and that
her mother became his wife in his ex,
IRENE old age. But she is also related
TO ex-Surrogate Livingstone of Brook
Iyn. Her home has been at Toms
River. n. j. She was educated al
Mt. St. Vincent Academy. Mr.. FEM
ing is about thirty-three years old.
all, athletic, has chestnut hair aid
light moustach. Recently he inherited
a half million dollars. He sat at the
end of the counsels table with a mass
of letters before him. The plaintiff
counsel, Merritt E Sawyer. said that
the plaintiff Was of gentle birth and
careful education, and that she met
Fleming first when just free from the
severe restraint of school. Miss Living
stone
BIUSHED TO THE TEMPLES
when called as witness. Her mother
had put the baby asleep in her lap and,
casting a motherly glance at it, the
plaintiff made her Way To the stand.
La very low tones she testified that
she was 81 years old and that she
first met the defendant in November,
1879, at her home in Toms River !;
that he came TO gee her at times when
she was home from school, and that
on June II, 1881, he proposed to mar
ry her. He sat upon a sofa in the hall
of her home one day and told her of
his love. The hall was OF the South
ern fashion, large and roomy, and was
used as a sitting-roOm He asked her
to feceme bis wife, and she, confess
ing her love. told him to ask her
mother. The latter said that she had
no obj ,ction provided he loved her
honestly. He said to her: "Alice.
YOU are now my own little girl and
must rot love any one else" He came
TO see her often and in few days her
mother and she removed to the Grand
Boulevard Hotel in thi. city. On
the evening of January 22 he called,
sent up his card, and after
talking some time proposed a walk.
Then he asked her to ride down the
road. They got out at Twen-
ty-third street and she supposed that
he was going to take her to Booths
theater. He complained of being
hungry and wanted to go to q restaur-
ant, refusing to go back to the hstel
for the meal. He opened door and
went into a house, and a waiter
brought some oysters and wine. She
refused to ca: or drink, and arose to
90.
HE LOCKED THE DOOR
and pocketed the KEY. He said that
he meant her no harm, that be was
going to make her his little wife, that
he intended 10 be honorable with her.
she begged him to let her go home
but he kept her there all night. He
took her part Of the way home. Her
mother had gone to Philadelphia the
night before and had not yet returned.
She met her step-father, Mr.. Bliss,
'ince divorced from her mother. He
,ad been in her room and discovered
Mr.. Jennings card. He accused her
# having remained away all night
With Fleming, but she refused to speak
a him and went tn her he'd When
Ter mother came back she told her |
what had happened, but did so reluct-
Intly, as she had promised Fleming to
We silent, AID he had promised her to
inform her mother himself and to tell
Ter that he would marry her. At11
o'clock next day she wIote to Fleming
% follows:
DARLING HEN: Oh, God! how
hall ! tell you am utterly helpless
Bliss. devil that he is, has discovered