The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-26
Miss Livingston Felt Life
Not Worth Living.
She Says.
BARES ROMANCE END
Frustrated, Couldn't Move
From Apartment, Court
Told.
By United Press


more glamor for Ann Livingston
after she learned her wedding with
Franklin S. Hardinge. millionaire
oil burner manufacturer, had been
cancelled, bhe Oklahoma beauty
told jury today in her $250,000
breach Of promise suit against the
62-year-old Chicago inventor.
"I was paralyzed in bed, a lonely
girl in a big city when my attor-
ney told me Mr.. Hardinge refused to
go through the ceremony he had
set" she related tearfully.
All reference to her refusal to
sign a pre-nuptiaI agreement linn
iting her share of the Hardinge for
tune to 100000 was barred from
testimony through objection Of
counsel for the furnace man.
1t was on that rock that the mar
riage bark crashed, Miss Livingston
has charged.
Frustrated by News
Benjamin Erchlich, her attorney,
opened the way to her recital of
woes after the break by asking:
when did you learn that Mr..
Eardinge had refused to marry
you?"
Shortly after New Years she
replied, when my attorney broke
the news to me-"
Tell what happened then the
attorney cOunSeled, and she
launched into her story.
81 was prostrated. I lay paralyed
in bed in my apartment My throat
ached and my heart palpitated. /
thought everything in life had been
taken from me.
st couldn't realize what he had
done to me He had taken al that
was precious to me and left me alone
in big city. No friends, no money,
no arrangements. Life held nothing
more for me"
Miss Livingston said she called a
doctor who advised her to take the
cure at French Lick.
Tells OF Wedding PlanS
Il went there for four weeks, but
was so frightened and nervous that I
could meet no one she said.
/ Miss Livingston began with a
recital of arrangements for the
wedding that was announced by
engraved cards for Jan %, 1928.
Mr.. Hardinge arranged with a
minister whose study had been fur
nished by the first Mrs. Hardinge,
to perform the ceremony % she said.
Even the attendants had been
chosen. They were to be Mr. and
Mrs. John Kennedy, the latter a
niece of the first Mrs Hardinge." "
Testimony yesterday by Miss
Livingston brought out that en-
graved engagement cards had been
sent out and reservations for the
honeymoon to the West Indies made
before complications arose between
her and Miss Josephine Brand,
Hardinges housekeeper, and men,
bers Of the Hardinge family.
Miss Livingston charged that when
her millionaire Romeo brought her
to Chicago in 1927, after q Whirl-
wind courtship, first aboard a train
in the west and later at an oilmen's
/ convention in Tulsa, his family and
Josephine Brand. his housekeeper.
did everything possible to spoil
things"
defends shane of Head
The plaintiff told of meeting the
! housekeeper At first Josephine ap-
. peared friendly Miss Livingston as
1 serted.
Later. however, Miss Livingston
said she found the woman in tears.
Miss Livingston assured Josephine
there would be no change in house.
keepers once she and Hardinge were
married.
Actual hostilities between the two
women came just before a New
Years eve party some months later,
according to Miss Livingston.
''Mr Hardinge was siek,' the
plaintiff testified, 80 I told him I
wouldn't 90 either but would keep
! him company at home.
Il was sitting beside his bed when
Josephine came i'll and sat down on
4 the bed and kissed him
He ordered her never to do that
again. She grew indignant and be-
gan remarking about the shape Of
/ my head.
Its so funny, she said, and
asked me to turn around so she
| could inspect it"