Show BREACH OF PROMISE SUIT UNITED STATES SENATOR SULLIVAN SUL-LIVAN THE DEFENDANT Lucy Le ton of Oxford Miss is I Plaintiff and the Complaint She Files is a Racy Document Washington Oct 26A gull for 30 COO damages for breach of prpmlac agaInst Unjtecl States Senator William V Sullivan of Mississippi was lllecj In time District of Columbia Supreme court this afternoon by Miss LucyLceton of Oxford Miss The plaintiff In her affidavit af-fidavit alleges that she an unmarried woman at the request of thc defend nnl undertook and promised lo marry him and time defendant undertook and promised lo marry the plaintiff which he without cause or right has refused lo do The plaintiff claims that she met Senator Sen-ator Sullivan October 7 1S95 In hum law office at Oxford he being employed lo defend her brolhcrinla She claims that ho made protestations of afCecllon for her and began by wiles and artifices to Induce the plaintiff to accompany him on a Journey lo Chattanooga Chat-tanooga Tenn Plaintiff claims she refused to go with him but allowed him to correspond wIth her She was at that lime married but nol living win her husband Plaintiff claims that Senator Sullivan promised lo procure a divorce for her and that lie would keep her forever with him and that she should occupy as high a position as any lady in tile land About December 1 1805 time plaintiff as time request of defendant went with him to Now Orleans In January 1SOO according to allldavlt filed today the defendant placed plaintiff In Nelsons Business college al Memphis Tenn paying hot tuition and board In May 1807 he Hccurcil u divorce for her The aindavll then alleges that May lOlh of that year plaintiff and defendant defend-ant lived together in Alexandria Ya us Mr and Mrs W L Sutton he Introducing Intro-ducing plaintiff as his wife Later he placed her In the Fnuqnlor Female Institute In-stitute In Warrenton Va as his niece vMiero she remained from January lo June 1898 time defendant writing her every day and promising her he would marry her in tho summer During this lime pUlnliff claims oho had an offer of marriage from a young man who lived near her home and asked the defendant to consent lo break off their rrlnllons Thc latter she claims urged that she should not murry the young man but wait and marry him the following summer The alll davit recites lhal lhc couple lived together to-gether In Washington and that the defendant finally notified plaintiff that he was not financially able to marry her Also thai plaintiff hearing do fcndanl was ill In June JOOO came to Washington lo see him and found him rooming with a woman whom he had brought from Holly Springs Miss Sho claims the defendant offered hor 1000 to go home and not expose him before said woman Tho plaintiff refused lo do thlH and claims tile defendant abused her and left her without money friends or means lo live on Thc court this afternoon Issued the visual writ for service on the defendant defend-ant to nliow cause within twenty days of service why Judgment should not be had The writ Is In the hando of the Marshal for this district for service I Senator Sullivan IH out of Limo city The case cannot reach a trial for some monllm In time present coriQlllon of time docket A telegram from Memphis Tenn says the records of Nelsons Business college show that Mlas Lucy Lccton of Lyons Miss was a pupil In 189fi and T thai she was placed there by W V I Sullivan of Oxford Miss Senator Sullhan today gave out the following statement Thin woman han no claim on me of any kind While In Washington rcconlly an attempt was made by her and her abettors to extort monoy from me under threat of n milt such aH she has now brought i < joi clhicd to entertain such u proposM6n Thc proof will show that It is an su tempL lo bpsmlrch my characler |