The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-27
He DECE|VES AND
THEN BETRAYS HER
So Declares Mai Lection of
Senator Sullivan.
HE PROMISED MARRIAGE
snit For $4,000 Damages For Breach
Of Promise.
HE PROMISED MARRIAGE
SULLIVAN SAYS HER CLAIMS ARE FALSE
She Declares That by Vile and Artifce He Drew
Her Under His Influence and Then
Finally Deserted Her For An
other Woman.
(By the Associated Press.)

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Washington, Oct. ga suit for $780,,
600 damages for breach of promise
against United States Senator VIM. "
Sullivan, of Mississippi, was filed in the
District of Columbia Supreme court this
evening by Mai Lucy Lection, of Oxford
Miss. The plaintiff in her affidavit al
leges that she, IAN unmarried woman at
the request of the defendant undertook
and promised to marry him and the de-
fendant undertook and promised to marry
the plaintiff, which he, without cause or
right has refused to do
The plaintiff claims that she met Sena-
tor Sullivan about October Z 1895 in his
law office at Oxford, he being employed
to defend her brothers, law. She claims
that he made protestations of affection
for her, "and began by wiles and artices
to induce the plaintiff to accompany him
on a journey to Chattanooga, Tenn. 7"
Plaintiff claims she refused to go with
him, but allowed him to correspond with
her. She was at the time married, but
not living with her husband.
Plaintiff claims that Senator Sullivan
promised to procure a divorce for her
"and that he would keep her forever with
him and also she should occupy as high
position as any lady in the land"
About December /, 1895, the plaintiff
a. the request of the defendant went with
him to New Orleans. In January, 1898
according to the affidavit filed today the
defendant placed plaintiff in Nelson's
Business College at Memphis, Tenn, pay
ing her tuition and board. In May, 1897,
he secured divorce for her. Affidavit
then alleges that May 10, of that year,
plaintiff and defendant lived together in
Alexandria, Va, as Mr.. and Mrs. w. L.
Sutton. He introduced plaintiff as his
wife. Later he placed her in the Far
quahar Female Institute in Warrenton,
Va, as his niece, where she, remained
from January to June, 1898 the defend
ant writing her every day and promising
her he would marry her in the summer.
During this time plaintiff claims she
had an offer of marriage from a young
man who lived near her home and asked
the defendant to consent to break off
their relations. The latter, she claims,
urged that she should not marry the
young man, but wait and marry him in
the following summer.
The affidavit also recites that the cou-
pie lived together in Washington and
that the defendant finally notified plain
tiff that he was financially unable to
marry her. Also that plaintiff hearing
defendant was i'll. in June, 1900, came to
Washington to see him and found him
rooming with a woman whom he had
brought from Holly Springs, Miss. She
claims that the defendant offered her ST.,
090 to go home and not expose him before
said woman. The plaintiff refused to do
this and claims that the defendant abused
her and left her without money, friends
or means to live on.
The court this evening issued the usual
writ for service on the defendant to
show cause within twenty days of service
why judgment should not be had The
writ is in the hands of the marshal for
this district for service. Senator Sulli-
van is out of the city. The case cannot
reach a trial for some months in the
present condition of the docket.