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LOVE LETTERS
Mrs. Klichlng VIII Use Them
in Breach Of Promise Suit.
she SEEKS $4,000 DAMAGES
Young Van Note Wrote FsVsnty and Often
Of His Great Love Parents Object
10 Marriage
she SEEKS $4,000 DAMAGES

New York, Jan. 1-Mrs jeanette Ger
trude sIsson kiichinF. . years old. di-
yoreed FOR three years aud bewitching in
fine clothes and much jswoiry. carried a
bundle o. go burning love letters TO the
office of her attorney Frank {. Mebane,
| az ~ Well street, yesterday, and laid eX-
/ ttHsifS plans for 4 t1s 00p breach OF
| promise suit she has brought against
Stanley Van Note, who makes his home
| al the ilotcl Logerot in Fifth avenue.
Mr.. Van Note is young, handsome. veal
! tlly ANA manager Cf the North Western
straw Works. Of which his father Is the
chief owner The principal Offices of the
company are in Milwaukee. where the
Nan Note family makes its home
The offices IN this city are a 6t5 Broad
way, where his father also has a whole
sale millinery establishment. Summons
IN The suit was served on Van Note on
( Saturday.
Mrs. kltChing Is the daughter OF James
Il. sisson, OF The street cleaning depart
ment. She lives with her parents. Mrs
kitching claims she met Van Note at
the Hollywood, y. j., horse show three
years ago. She had just been divorced
from Frederick Mckay kitching.
Mr.. Van Note courted her ardently, she
alleges. They became engaged aud the
"
Note, she says, took breakfast on Nov
l3 with her father. mother and herself at
their apartments Ia the Barnard. jos Cen
tral Park. west. and when he left prom
ised 10 return at y. IN. To complete the
arrangements for their wedding
He never came back she alleges, never
sent her any word and she has never
heard from him since.
FATHER SAID mo"
She went 10 his place OF business and
not finding him saw his father. The
elder Van Note, she says told her that
Stanley would never marry her and that
he would rather see his son dead than see
him her husband
Mrs kitching waited thinking that
parental opposition had only temporarily
interfered with the alleged matrimonial
pledges OF young Van Note Then she
decided 10 br ing suit
The 25o love letters will be used in
court TO prove the existence OF the en-
gagement. These epistles are models of
ierNiuness. Here Is one written from ST.
Louis where Mr. Van Note had gone ON
business. lie had not heard from M~
kitchsng for three days hence all the
wild agony:
Sept :, 1900.
My Sweetheart That Was: Not one
note or word have YOU written me since
last Thursday l can find no words TO ex-
press my feelings. il was not surprise
but pain | suffered More than hurt my
pride was crushed and my heart broken
for good
/ went 10 my room and 10 bed but not
TO sleep. That l could not do thought
out the whole year just passed and of my
tender love for YOU and the things l had
done that YOU might not he disappointed
and the pleasure IL had given me 10 see
YOU enjoying yourself l tried hard 10
find an excuse. hut not one could allow.
Had you been IN your mother Gould
have notified me so. l realize that YOU
have deliberately ignored me
How could YOU do it? Hesrtless and cruel
are mild terms.
YOU PLAYED WITH ME"
have been, instead Of a man a thing
to he played with, and now. when / need
help and sympathy. to be thrown over
In this fashion is more than ] can stand.
You have not loved me at all
Down at the bottom OF IL all still love
YOU and shall wear your picture always.
You are the only one ! have ever
addressed as my sweetheart
shall mourn for YOU forever. but YOU can
not take my love from me. No one can
do that Your broken-hearted sweet
heart STAN
Young Van Note was seen az the Hotel
Logerot last night and refused to saw |
anything about the suit declaring the
ma tier was en- tho hands of his LAWYERS. /
lie denied that his father had ever told |
Mrs l<itching that he would rather see |
his son dead than her husband