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Show SUIT AGAINST DAUGHTER OF SENATOR W. A. CLARK BROUGHT TO SUDDEN END NEW YORK, Nov. 15. Society circles cir-cles are shaken with gossip over the sudden tnrt nf the rfrnjpiasd grr0 sensation sen-sation in the 1500,000 suit for damages brought . against Mrs. .' Culver, former wife of Dr. Everett M. Culver, and the daughter of W. A. Clark, the multimillionaire multi-millionaire Montana Senator, by Mrs. Solon J. Vlasto, for the alleged alienation aliena-tion of her husband's affections. The case has come to a sudden end, has been settled out of court, and Mrs. Vlasto has discontinued the sensational action she brought against her husband, "Count" Vlasto, for a limited divorce. Mrs. Vlasto, who has been away, has suddenly returned to New York City, and has consented to resume her former for-mer arrangement with her husband, whereby they lived apart and he paid her $25 a week. There are charges and promises of sensational developments pending, but it Is declared by friends of the Clark family that no settlement whatever was made on Mrs. Vlasto by the representative represen-tative of the multi-millionaire. The sudden wind-up to the case Is sail, to, hav-BTO"accompirshecr by ome mysterious mys-terious influences wielded by the Vlasto family. There were charges of blackmail when Mrs. Vlasto brought her suit against Mrs. Culver, who then was suing su-ing her own husband for divorce. Senator Sen-ator Clark waxed indignant and asserted assert-ed at that time: "I shall not allow Mrs. Culver to pay 6 cents to settle this case out of court. The charges must be answered In open court, and the world can be the Judge." Mr. Vlasto, who had lived apart from his wife an English woman for twelve years, is a courtly, handsome, elderly man, who speaks French, Spanish, German, Greek and Italian. He is a Greek, the editor f Atlantis, and is known in every large city of Europe. In the evidence gathered for the case was a photograph of "Count" Vlasto and Mrs. Culver taken together after a fancy dress ball in Mrs. Culver's home. It was the presence of Vlasto in Senator Clark's family circle abroad that started the talk which resulted in Mrs. Vlasto filing her sensational charges against Mrs. Culver. "I have ample proof to substantiate my charges," asserted Mrs. .Vlasto at the time Senator Clark charged blackmail. black-mail. "I want the case to come to trial at once. For any one to Intimate that I would agree to a settlement in this case puts me in a low class, and I shall take action, too, against Senator Clark for his cruel and unwarranted attacks on me." Consequently the sudden termination of the case came like a thunder clap. And all New York Is talking of possible sensations impending. |