Show k I ALLS IT BLACKMAil Ii I Senator Clark Defends His I Daughters Suit HOW PAPERS WERE SERVED i Montana Sonator Indignant Over Hut Summons I If I Had Been Thore I Would Havo Kicked the Fellow Down tho 1 Elevator Shaft t 4I 4 I I New York Dec 1Not a cent o I all my millions ever has or eli vrll n each the purse of a blackmailer and I I II am here to fight this case with all the J vigor I I possess I Thus denouncing the suit of Mrs Solon i So-lon J Vlnsto against his daughter Mrs Rveiclt Mnllory Culver as a plain case I J of blackmail Senator Clark of Montana i I announced his determination to bring the t case to nn Immediate trial He salr there would he no compromise even It I it could be hrought about by the payment t pay-ment of a ficcnt piece The Senator characterized the manner r 1 In which the papers in the case were ered as a brutal and cowardly l Invasion Inva-sion of his daughters home I One particular thing I want to denounce de-nounce In this case he said is the method adopted by the lawyers to serve a summons on my daughter in her home Posing ns a clerk In the employ of Henry G Atwater my daughters lawyer the opposition lawyer gained admittance I ad-mittance to the house to serve the papers pa-pers on her 1C I had been there I would have kicked the fellow down the elevator shaft There are many places papers r an be served without Invading a wo mans home DENIES ALL ALIENATION j This case is absurd on the face ol It he continued In the first place Vlns to and his wife were separated long be fnrc he met my daughter l All of our friends know that my daughter never A looked upon Vlastn as anything more than I I a friend of the family He was ihirly years ojder than she I Vlnsto came to our home several I limes and 1 believe he met Dr and Mrs 1 Culver I when they were cruising in the f Mediterranean a year ago The photograph t photo-graph which Mrs Vlastos lawyers say they have In theIr possession in which I Mrs Culver is reclining at the feet of J Vlaslo who Is garbed In Oriental costume cos-tume is evidently Intended to mislead I EXPLAINS COSTUME PICTURE L That photograph wns one of many iiken In my home on the occasion of a fete and all the guests wore fantastic I tostumes All present were first photographed t photo-graphed in a group and later in the t tn oiling some of the guests had pictures I i taken individually and in twos and three I I threeThe The one in whlrh my daughter appears ap-pears was taken more at the suggestion sugges-tion of others on account of the cos I L1 5times Vlasto and Mrs Culver wore It 1 lies no more significance than the others that were taken the same night VLASTOS VARIEGATED CAREER Count Solon J Vlasto who appears l In the suit of Mr Vlaslo against Mrs I I Mary J C Culver for 500000 as the person per-son whose affections were alienated has I hud it variegated career In this country t according to an affidavit made by De niclrlus Polymorn proprietor of the Greek hotel In East Fortysecond street I The affidavit is I on file in the Supreme f oiirt Count Vlusto has a suit pending pend-ing for 350000 damages against Mr Polymora and Mr Prtlymora said that I he has used every means in his power to force Count Vlasto to appear in court ti for trial j I According to M > Polymoras affidavit Count Vlasto is a native of Syra Greece IH father was a school teach < r and his origin was humble When a young man he left home and went to I i oumanlH which place he left suddenly I Tie turned up in Pans In 1S7L and short I ly fierward came to this country as a valter for several Mormon elders lie was to go to Utah but remained in New r I York City where lie became a candy ii anG 1 banana peddler If CROOKED DEAL CHARCIfiD I Ii Shortly 1 before Vlaslo disappeared in l 1 1 1SST the affidavit states lie bought large quantities oC oil from the Central Oil J I f ompany and save two cheeks for II ayjTnO and S12GO drawn on the Sea l 1 I J board National bank Vlatlo received a II f ji I bill of lading for these goods l and col l lated 55000 on It The cheeks were re It turned I and marked worthless 1 D I 1 Plutt made complaint to the Produce cvl I I i i Mange of which Count Vlaslo was a I member for falling to mcet his obliga 4 I lions and while the charges were peru lug Count Vlaslo sold his seat on the I exchange The Sheriff levied on bin of lice furniture at No 3 t3 Ueuver street About November IJO 1871 while Count Vlasto was in the candy business u x0 2G5 Vebl Tiventysixtim strecf lu v is confined In he I city prison by order I of Justice Blsby on the charge of rilse nt > tenses EXPELLED 13Y CREEKS Vlaslo was expelled from the Crnel Jitoiherhood the leading reek soflotv I of New York the affidavit Ills This rsoiution vas adopted Hiiviii I taken lit j orhideruUon all the juopo ecl ac lions and saying of Solon J Vlpsto it tho meeting and having found to he all IJ 7t ijjiunSt the rules nnd regulations of iho soutty it is unanimously resolved to ixpel him After beug io cxnellcd It is liartrcd I t Insto represented himself to be tlI I jnsIdent of the society The afihlavlt len says that Vluslo reciticstcd to rt 1 iffn from the Grotil uhtirch in I JS9 nini the nali reriueat was tantamount to ai t < JJUIslun r HAD BOGUS DECORATION ri It Is I further recKcd that about 1SW P lasto s name appeared In a list of per ons upon whom the Oreclc Government h1i r proposed to confer the Cross of the Sa i vor or Redeemer but before the cross 4 find ribbons were awarded VlasiiVs I name WaR MtrlfJren from the list Sub I I qtient to the cancoliitlon of the name 1 lasto appeared with the ribbon In his buttonhole to Iiullcnt he bore the title 11 I mark of honor The affidavit also Ja ys there are many small judgments li ouiataiiciinB against Vlasto |