The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-03-15
SISTER SUES WHEN
TRAGEDY ENDS DYL
Wants $4,000 From Estate Of
Broker Who Married Mex
lean Hpiress.
ROMANCE TOLD IN SUIT

Tho romance o' a young New York
hroNcr who met tn" daughter Of a
riri Mexican planter board a liner.
won her before the vessel reached port
and married her despite her fathers
objections but was aftorwHrd muir
dotcd on his plantation ny an employee
viii bee told to a jury Ia the supreme
Court this morning when ;he attorneys
sum up in q suit Of Miss Ray Les
zynsky To recover 500. 900 from the es-
tate Of her brother. Albert II Lawrence.
Mr.. Lawrence. n had his name
changed, was a broker and promoter
with an office az SO Broadway prior TO
1907.
Mr. Lawrence started for Mexico in
the fall 81 1907 10 look after the in
tcrests Of a sugar plantation in the state
of Vera cruz. ON the ieamer he met
Virginia Pernet. daughter Of a wealthy
sugar grower. who was on her way
home from "A visit to the States. They
were engaged before they left the boat,
hut hccdus of parental opposition on
account Of difference ina religion they
were no; married until the fall ~ l90s
Not long atterward Lawrence acquired
ID plantation Of his own. and ho and his
VII. went 10 live ON il. feeling that
if they s,ayed in retirement on ;ht
place they would not become involved
N the troubles in Mexico.
Lawrence cane 10 New York on bust.
ness IN 1919. While here lie said TO his
secretary. Mrs. Mott: This will be the
l.=t ,lp,a cot, ain atrav g., , la.a
Il ~premonitlon hat ! will never come 20
New York again. Some one Is going 10
XIII me-
lie at once began TO put his affairs
In order. He placed all Of his private
papers and his wife's jewelry, valued
at many thousands of dollars. in a safe
deposit box here, and bought an auto
matte pistol to take with him. He re-
turned to Mexico as soon ~ his bust
ness here was completed, and reached
there in the middle of March.
ON March 81 he was shot and killed
by Charles Ballet, an employee, while
going over his accounts In his office
Ba,ll-t's mind had hecome uuhinged
b.caus" of the trouble in Mexico. He
seIzcd L~iwrencc's new automatic pistol
and shot before Lawrence realized that
he wuS face 20 face with the end that he
had predicted
A. the time Lawrence died II was be-
li,ved his estate wuuld mount TO 81
100000, but because of the revolution II
was reduced TO about 1900, OOO. II,
,rft everything to his widow. His sis
tiers, Hannah and Ray I.szynsky, sued
TO break the will in Mexico and lost
They then started an action for $50 600
which they asserted their mother haC
lent their brother. Tho case is on tria
before Justice Pendleton. HANNAH
Leszynsky has died since the suit waS
brought, Her sister now claims the en-,
tire sum,
Evidence introduced in the case show.
that tor years before his death Law
renee paid his mothers rent in New
York. On his checks drawn for the pur
pose he wrote Interest" The attorucy
for Mrs. Lawrence contends that thu
checks never bore the word before Law
reucc's marriage and that he added i
after his marriage to conceal from hi,
wife the fact that he WAS aiding hI
! relatives.
Testimony 10 the effect that Law
r.nc"'s mother never had sufficient prop
.ity To l,nd her SON se0, 600 WAS also in
%troduced.
Mrs, Lawrence, who came here from
Mexico to oppose the sisters claim. II
still CARRIED in deep mourning.
The case will probably be decided to-
! iay.