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Show San Frahcisoo has bten "luxuriating" "luxuri-ating" for several weeks past in the social scandal developments growing out of the McCormick-Baldwin suit. Lannie McCormick, a rather good-looking good-looking and intelligent young lady, brought suit against E, J. Baldwin, millionaire, for aliened seduction. The trial, which has been running for some days, came to a sudden termination ter-mination on Monday by a verdict for the defendant. On ber direct examination exami-nation the girl McCormicE told a weeful tale of how she had been "ruined" by the defendant under j promise of marriage, and how be subsequently cast her off. She placed her damages at $100,000. On Monday, Mon-day, under the crcsa-examinalion, it was developed that the girl was an unprincipled blackmailer, and had been aided In bar ic hemes by ber mother. She admitted thct she had committed peijury, had been an inmate in-mate of bouses of ill-fame, and before be-fore and since her acquaintance with Baldwin had been in the habit of meeting gentlemen at disreputable place. It was also shown that she had twice been married, once to a man who, to her knowledge, had a wife Hvin. The law officers of San Franoisco should make it a point to bring the guilty woman and her abettors abet-tors to justice. |