Evening journal., 1921-02-14
DIAMONDS, AUTOS
GIFTS TO GIRL
Fancy Lingerie Also Helps
Smash 100000 Auto
mobile Company
ONLY BIG BROTHER,
WOMAN SAYS

DALLAS. Tex. Feb. l4.-Nellie
Preston. pretty daughter OF a prom
inent family. on whom William S.
Livezey. president OF the defunct
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 on Friday how
In her girihood 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 et-rich-quick stock selling
enterprise. Testimony az 10 Live
zey's extravagances in behalf OF Miss
Preston. was introduced by the gov
the funds OF the Little Motor Kar
Company were wasted.
Appearing trinity CARRIED in
simple frock. Miss Preston amazed
court spectators with her naive mar
ration OF Livezey's generosity. She
told how. at the height OF his pros
perity in the psring OF 1890, he re-
turned TO Aberdeen. the home OF
his boyhood and showered her with
gifts ranging from candy TO two
automobiles in one day. and how she
returned his gifts many months later
when his firm went into the hands OF
him NJ
trouble"
Denying any intimate relations ex-
listed between them. Miss Preston
declared she regarded Iivezey as a
brother and accepted his gifts as
she might from a member Of her
own family.
some Of the gifts. she enumerat-
ed under the district attorneys ques-
toning. were a gold ring with a
diamond setting. a diamond pin, a
lavalierre OF platinum. set with two
large diamonds and several smaller
ones, a platinum diamond cluster
ring. a diamond bracelet, sedan
and a roadster. a saddle horse, a
case OF silk underwear and negh-
gee. a Siberian squirrel coat, scarf
and cap and about s4O0 in cash and
checks.
She testified further that Iivezes
purchased the Preston country es-
tate near Aberdeen. with the pro
viso that the family was TO occupy
IL as long as her mother lived and
equipped il with an electric ightinl
plant. She told OF a sedan given hel
sister by Livezey as a birthday pres
ent and declared she remembered
having seen four motor cars and one
farm truck at the Preston home
an gifts OF Livezey.
on one occasion I4vezey took he
10 Baltimore. where he bought he
two automobiles.
Didn't YOU think that was NOR
than you could use-that he wa
going pretty strong on autos?" tn
District Attorney asked.
Il did say something like that
But il didn't stop him ?"
No sir"
Miss Preston blushed. and de
scribed with visible embarrassment n
a visit OF Postoffice inspectors az
ter Livezey's 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 scofed at indmauons that sh
had ever been engaged 20 MARI
Iivezey.
There was never anything hk
that between US. she said.
He was just like big brother
Tie lived with the family man
years and when he became success
ful he played Santa Claus to US Z
repay the favors we had shown hin
"I still have dolls he gave m
when I was little girl"
Miss Preston Is 19 years old an
pretty. Livezey is 30 and hail
from Norfolk Va