The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-08-17
MARIE WANTS MORE MONEY.
SHE Is SUING RICHARD GOODMAN
PLAT FOR $4,000

as q swell clubman In the Calumet and other
social organizations Of the town. He Is
builder, lives at 1902 West Eighty-6fth street.
and has an ofIice at 102 West Eighty first
street. He is q broad-shouldered man OF
athletic temperament with . light moustache
and goatee. and always dresses in the height
OF fashion. He walked out Of the Calumet
Club last Wednesday night after dining with
some fellow members. aud ran plump into
lawyers clerk. who handed him a couple OF
sheets Of legal cap carefully folded and sealed.
He orened the papers and read with compare
tive calm the summons and complaint in the
suit OF Marie T. ]. g. I. Willard against him
for $50 600 damages for breach Of promise.
Tho next day Mr.. Platt's mother received a
COPY OF n city weekly. dated Aug. 10. In which
this piece was marked:
breach of promise suit Is soon to before tho
public which promises to afford moro than the usual
amount Of enter tninment and amusement to persons
interested in such social disturbances The fun will DO
furnished by tho pretty young woman that is to do the
suing is herself greatly impressed by tho drol
lery OF tho situation and frankly says II IS better than
anything she has found outside of French comedy.
The defendant in the may not contemplate mat.
tors the hilarious mood: In fact he will prob
ably feel rather uncomfortable than otherwise.
Mr. rlatt was angry whom he saw that. and
he went to the oince o! Lawyers Friend j
The lawyers served notice OF appearance
yesterday on Howe 4 Hummel. who are coun-
sci for Marie L. ]. s. L. Willard. Tho day be-
fore the notice was served Mr.. Plat had q con-
ference with his counsel
"This is simply case OF blackmail," he
said. Flight It I have nothing to conceal
about this matter"
Part OF Mr.. Platt's version OF his relations
with tho woman was told yesterday. Accord
ing to this version the plaintiff is Of stat
uesque build and jovial temperament Mr..
Platt met her in 1890 while she was the wife
ofJames Willard. q broker. and o relative of the
late f K. Willard. Wall street man. She was
then living in Chicago. and LAWYERS Howe IL
Hummel we're engaged In securing divorce
eoE e ss and Ha
after the divorce was secured, and finally. SO
third street. where she lived as Marie yEn
W called Sesa sf #s Some e %
her acaunintances. and seems to have been
REGARDED as Countess du5ing tive Gons
1852. stopping at the best hotels and making
irequentRn very literal drafts 81 OF Mr. Plat
She travelled ali over tho Continent as Marie
her sirai al to the extent OF q good many thou
sand dollars. not counting tho other thousands
that he spent on her IN tn this o city
from the Paris FIGARO Of an engagement to
translate, French works Tor tho american
ences in Paris according to tho statement. Of
Mr.. Flats lawyers. among them were Ms
count do Labry; a French ofticer. and the Wis.,
Trouble arose between Mr. Platt and the
plaintiff last winter. when she was in Paris.
mud he was living at so Lexington avenue.
She kept sending him cabe dispatches for
money. This list OF messages shows something
Of her demands:
Jan. L. lsso-send at once to Hotel Continental
s2HS eays ps, ri once. Leave Paris
Monday Letter explains Lillian returned;
Feb; ~, lsas -Broken leg: two weeks No money.
siSk ContTsm!a1 send go At once Letter sent Won
Cab.a $50 at once Trouble serious. WI! write. NJ
April .. 1sO5-Lurgags held hotel Ill Money at
0I April T. 1soa-wflard serious trouble baggage
SEIZED iioto! threaten police shs 9sk. me cable you
A"s s'HSa SssS FaE
There was omen war. 1t, seems; when a mes
which said:
Refuse at your peril
This. It is alleged. was the plaintiffs reply to
tcrs were addressed either to "Ricky., or
addressed. One letter came, by mail from the
Hotel de- a In which TIE pIadlnttiit
Of Banker Harry Alexandra 3, she ,wMouid, have
braided Mr. Plat. and declared that her former
Abou Ss the sq Frsneh nsd
Lillian Snipte de Grantine;, wrote to MIR. Patt
y the plaintiffs husband. because people, in
Paris were beginning to comment upon her
We and haS w5e
I? Mr.; Plat telling him not 20 pay heed to
Mni Inn ltna M
maid had tried to Islander her and that she
would make the maid suffer for It. 4 letter
sailed for this city, In which she wrote that
she had been In prison two days for dolt. and
ogain appealed for aid, adding:
faithful 10 you. have loved IN spite q the fact
mt y9u nays not Loved m or wSa'a w hsxs tS s
JGna my power 20 avoid: ,n.w - ,,,o, van, ~,
ena 'f" y me yo sF s sSw FL
mo. woman to play wi:h' especially when am an
The plaintiff took rooms at the Hotel Metro
pole after her return to this city. and few
days later the defendant received this letter:
which .st!rs SS shs
s. shall hal 20 s :. IN
issss$ IL
$Sa Sss fss soul ed
a, . snSsh d SS into
si;s hs 4Sf
bitter perhaps after alI' Of bright.
happy days when the shone for US alone and the
light OF world In your eyes Days when power
ty held in strong clasp days that return
days when ambition held no place IN our life. and you
were mine
There is an anguish in my heart, pain which in.
creasss every time see YOU seems so strange that
you and should meet almost as STRANGERS ask
favor, Jake me once again in y9a arms Gn's again
to say It, but my heart Is hungerinE for affection.
When leave you my old life Is finished and memory
OF your old love will be happy dream OF life that
dead love you you Will say have never shown it)
with love perhaps more passionate than spiritual.
but love yo and much SO that can never change
and there viii never be place for another In my heart
Happiness aud prosperity Is all can wish you. and
warning TO think again before You win another wo-
mans heart think or ono life broken. and love her
truly before you for that affection which Ia the
whole OF a womAns life. MAIZE
r R-Let me have luncheon with you to- morrow.
and tho dead past will be buried then and there.
1t turned out. SO Mr.. Platt asserts, that 1t
wasn't the last letter. for he got ono threaten
ing a lawsuit In this language:
You have huniliated me and insulted me- You have
possible Idea OF me- which must have been caused by
your own spoken opinion concerning mo- was forced
TO to hat house to-day and you can be sure that