Evening journal., 1921-02-12
DIAMONDS, AUTOS.
GIFTS TO GIRL.
Fancy Lingerie Also Helps
Smash 100000 Auto
mobile Company
ONLY BIG BROTHER,
WOMAN SAYS

DALLAS, Tex, Feb. lf.-Nellic
Preston, pretty daughter OF a prom
inent family, on whom william X.
Livezey, president OF the den1nct
Little Motor Kar Company, lavish
ed diamonds. motor cars and silk
underwear. while stockholders wait
ed for dividends that never materi-
allied told on the witness stand IN
Federal Court here yesterday how
in her sirlhood he made her gifts
OF baby dolls and toys.
Livezey and four other officers OF
the wrecked concern are on trial for
alleged use OF the mails to defraud.
in connection with a three-million-
dollar get-rich-quick stock selling
enterprise. Testimony as TO Live
zeys extrevagances in behalf OF Miss
Preston. was introduced by the gov
eminent in an effort TO show that
the funds OF the Little Motor Kar
Company were wasted.
Appearing trinity CARRIED IN a
simple frock, Miss Preston amazed
court spectators with her naive mar
ration OF Idvezey's generosity. She
told how, at the height OF his pros
lperity IN the psring OF 1920. he re-
turned to Aberdeen, the home OF
his boyhood. and showered her with
gifts ranging from candy 10 two
automobiles in one day and how she
returned his gifts many months later
when his firm went into the hands OF
the receiver. 10 help him out Of
trouble"
DENYING any intimate relations eN-
listed between them, Miss Preston
declared she regarded IAvezey as a
brother and accepted his gifts a.
. she might from a member OF her
own family.
Some of the gifts. she enumerat-
ed under the district attorneys ques-
tioning. were a gold ring with
diamond setting diamond pin, a
Ilavalierre Of platinum. set with two
large diamonds and several smaller
ones. a platinum diamond cluster
ring. a diamond bracelet, a sedan
and a roadster. a saddle horse. a
case OF silk underwear and negh-
gee a Siberian squirrel coat. scarf
= and cap and about $500 in cash and
checks.
She testified further that Liveze,
b purchased the Preston country es'
tate near Aberdeen. with the pro-
viso that the family was to occup,
b fl as long as her mother lived ane
e equipped It with an electric hghtinl
% plant She told OF a sedan given hei
J sister by Ilvezey a. a birthday pres
p ent and declared she remembered
] having seen four motor cars and on
e farm truck at the Preston home
20 all gifts OF IAvezey.
on one occasion lAvezey took he
r TO Baltimore. where he bought he
81 two automobiles.
Didn't you think that was NOR
than you could use-that he wa
: going pretty strong on autosf' IN
/ District Attorney asked.
Il did say something like that.
But It didn't stop him ?"
NO. sir"
Miss Preston blushed. and de
a scribed with visible embarrassment
e a visit OF Postoffice inspectors ar
= ter IAvezeys arrest; at which tim
they went TO her bedroom to In
, spect a nightgown and boudoir cap
In the witness room, after sh
had been on the stand. Miss Pres
ton scoffed al limitations that sh
had ever been engaged TO MARI
\ IiVezey.
' There was never anything Tx
that between Us" she said.
He was just like big brother
He lived with the family man
B. years and when he became success
l. ful he played Santa Claus TO us {
4 repay the favors we had shown hin
n Il still have dolls he gave m
q. when I was a little girl
{. Miss Preston il 1s years old an
u pretty. Livezey Is 40 and hail
M from Norfolk Va