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Show TTTTTTTTT'riilii.".'.'-.'- MES. VIOLA LIVINGSTON. NrEW YORlv, June 7. Mrs. Viola Livingston Is the young 3on-tucky 3on-tucky woman who through her guardian Is suing William H. Barnard, millionaire merchant and member of the Union League club, for $25,000 damages. George Gordon Battle, counsel for Barnard, gave out a statement In which he admitted a few of the least serious of tho woman's allegations, and denied nil others. The statement made by Mr. Battle declared that the case was one of blackmail and that Mr. Barnard would fight It to the end. On the other hnnd, George Robinson of No. 90 Nassau street, Mrs. Livingston's Living-ston's attorney, said that If Mr. Barnard Bar-nard alleged personally that blackmail was the basis of the suit he would bo arrested under section 303 of the penal code, which provides a 'penalty for a serious offense. Mrs. Livingston alleges that she inserted in-serted a "personal" in a morning paper asking some one to aid her In her theatrical the-atrical ambitions; that .Mr. Barnard answered it under the name of W11" liam T. Carroll on the letter-head of the Union League rlub; that he met her at the Hotel Grenoble, Fifty-sixth street and Seventh avenue, and that during dinner he told her that his real name was Wlllam H. Bailey, and that he wrote the mime upon the edge of the programme. Then came a ride through the park in a cab. during which, she alleges, he attacked her. |