Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-27
WOUNDS ARE ON THE HEART
OF MRS. MAI LUCY LECTION
A FEW SPOTS UPON HER CHARAC-
TER ARE ALSO To BE
CONSIDERED.
SHE WAS A MARRIED WOMAN.
BUT HAD KNOWN UNHAPPINESS
BEFORE SHE MET SENATOR
SULLIVAN.
SAYS SENATOR sEDUCED HER
AND DID MANY OTHER THINGS NO
REALLY RESPECTABLE
MAN SHOULD.

WASHINGTON, Oct. ga suit for
$4,000 damages for breach of promise
against United States Senator William
v. Sullivan, of Mississippi, was filed
In the District of Columbia Supreme
Court this afternoon, by Mai Lucy Lee
ton, of Oxford, Miss. The plaintiff in
her affidavit alleges that she, IAN un-
married woman, at the request OF the
defendant, undertook and promised to
marry him. and the defendant under
took and promised to marry the plain
tiff, which he, without cause or right.
has refused to do" The plaintiff
claims that she met Senator Sullivan
about Oct. 7, 1895, in his law office at
Oxford, he being employed to defend
her brother-in-law. She claims that be
made protestations Of affection for her
land begun by wiles and articles to
induce the plaintiff to accompany him
on a journey to Chattanooga, Tenn"
Plaintiff claims she refused to go with
him, but allowed him to correspond
with her. She was at that time mar
ried, but not living with her husband.
Plaintiff claims that Senator Sullivan
promised to procure divorce for her
land that he would
Keep Her Forever With Him
and that she could occupy as high a po-
cifinn 1alY in tha
December :, 1895, the plaintiff, at the
request of the defendant, went with him
to New Orleans. Concerning this visit
Miss Lection in her affidavit says:
After spending a day in the city de-
PENDANT and plaintiff went to the city of
Bay ST. Louis, and there the said defend
ant by promise of marriage and pro-
fessed affection accomplished his seduc-
ton of her. After that time the plaintiff
lived with the defendant, submitting
wholly to his will
The plaintiff claims that on numerous
occasions she desired and proposed TO ter
inmate the illicit relations with defend
ant to which the latter always made OBJ
jections.
In January, 1896. according to the affi-
davit filed to-day, the defendant placed
plaintiff in Nelson's business college at
Memphis, Tenn. paying her tuition and
board. In May, 1897,
He Secured Divorce for Her.
The affidavit then alleges that on May
TO- of that year, plaintiff and defendant
lived together in Alexandria, Va, as Mr..
and Mrs. w. L. Sutton, he introducing
plaintiff as his wife. Later he placed her
in the Fauquier female institute, at War
renton, Va, as his niece, where she re-
manned from January till June, 1885, the
defendant whiting to her every day and
promising that he would marry her in
the summer.
During this time, the plaintiff claims,
she had an offer of marriage from young
man who lived near her home, and asked
THE defendant to break off their relations.
The latter, she claims, urged that she
should not marry the young man. but wait
and marry him the following summer
The affidavit also recites that the couple
also lived together in Washington, and
that the defendant finally notified plain
tiff that he was not financially able to
marry her. Also that plaintiff, hearing
defendant was Ill in June. 1900, came to
Washington to see him and
Found Him Rooming With Woman
whom he had brought from Hollis Springs
Miss. She claims that the defendant
offered her 81 600 to go home and not ex-
pose him before said woman The plain
iiff refused to do this, and claims that
The defendant abused her and left her
without money, friends or means 10 live
On