Show Blackmail Plot Charged Against Fencing Master I Film Actor Testifies Hot Hol Man n Told Him of Mad Love for Girl 14 LOS ANGELES GELES March 23 r An alleged blackmail plot In which Lieutenant Gerard de l Jerveaux Hollywood fencing master Is ac- ac used Cu ot of having I sought to entrap the he two daughters or of J Stuart into forced marriages marriages' to extort exton money t from gm the the- Win film director tor tal heightened the thel Interest today in the dueling Instructors Instructor's charges charge that t Blackton had lashed him with witha a horsewhip De is 13 seeking In In damages front from ton Black Bl for tHe thrashing which he alleges he rei re- re while a guest In the direr direr- tor tOIS s home wh where re he previously had heen engaged eng to Instruct Blackton's daughters r all to m fencing anti and corrective ics The extortion plot was plot was laid to De 11 yesterday during the hearing of the damage suit when Defense J J. J I bidder accused the fending fenCing instructor of haling threatened the lives ot of daughters Violet Iolet and Jallon Kidder sought to show by his bis questIoning of De that the had approached apPIo a friend with a plan to force the two girls into marriage No o no lies all lies Ues D Dc Mer- Mer veaux eaux Clun flung back at his questioner the denials often orten coming coming- before K Kidder could finish his Interrogation tion Victor lIn cLa-lIn film actor called as a a. a defense witness told ot of a conversation con con- with De several months before the allege l horse horse- whipping De confided to him the witness witness' said that he was desperately in lave loye with Violet then 14 years yeal's ot of age and that he be tn In- In Intended tended te to marry her In In reply to a direct question said De expressed the intention of killing the girl 1 if he could not her hel Under De examination cross reiterated that lie he had been attacked b by Blac ton as he was preparing preparing- to leave the latter's home lie He said lie he decided to leave after receiving a note from the directors director's directors director's di- di rectors rector's wife Mrs rs Paula 11 II Blackton Blackton Black Black- ton and that she struck him in the face in an argument arg which ensued l |