The Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1870-1875, 1870-12-12
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An Edltor On HIs NIuseIe.

About noon on Saturday, people on
Third Street, near Main, were enter
tanned by the somewhat amusing
sight Of the editor chief of the
Courier attempting to whip Captain
Hargrave, Prosecuting Attor ney of
the Criminal Court.
Captain Hargrave, in company with
Judge Butterfeld, was walking along
Third Street, when Whittlesey, who |
was on the opposite side, crossed over
and demanded an explanation OF Har-
graves card in Saturdays JOURNAL.
Capt. Hargrave answered that the Ian
guage was plain, that any man Of or
binary understanding could see what
he meant, and needed no expla-
nation. Whittlesey then demanded
that Captain Hargrave should
apologize for the offensive language
in the card. Captain Hargrave an
swered that, until the Courier apollo
gizsd for editorials 10 that paper
abusive of him, he had no apologies
to make, and asked Whittlesey if he
was not the author Of an article in
that paper charging him with dis
honesty, to which question Whit
tlesey would give no answer but
abuse, and ended by striking wickedly
at him. The blow was warded of,
and returned on the editorial paureh,
driving it back a few feet, and the
Captain, stepping back, picked up
half brick, and was about to lend an
additional bat to the already we'll
freighted editorial nat. when Judge
Butterfeld stepped between them,
and another person caught Captain
Hargrave, thus putting an end to the
fight.
A little later Charles III. Mann, the
bosom friend Of Whittlesey, filed an
affidavit before Justice Walker.
charging Whittlesey with having. "in
a rude, insolent and unlawful man
ner," assaulted Captain HargraYs. and
at Eve o'clock in the evening, Whit
tlesey appeared before the Justice and
pleaded guilty. Judge Butterfeld
having been summoned to appear. tes-
tilted to the striking, and fine of one
dollar and costs was imposed; Cap
tain Hargrave, who had also been
summoned. declining to prosecute.
In yesterdays Courier the editor
devotes about a column Of editorial
to the subject. and in so doing. says
I'VE have no occasion to quarrel with
Capt. Hargrave," and concludes by
returning the very epithet that ex-
cited his own ire and provoked the
assault.
On the fourth page of the Courier
where the writings of the editor il
chief" are supposed not to appear
there is what purports to be an &C
count of the affair in which tho loca
writer differs with the editor as to tn
existence of an occasion for quarre
with the Captain.
The Dem0krdt's account Of the al
fair is that WhittIesey met Captain
Hargrave, while the Courier says b
crossed the street on purpose to de
mand an explanation.
The Dsm0Erdt further says tina
Captain Hargrave filed the complaint
while the fact is, the Captain never in
{ tended to prosecute his assailant, th
complaint having probably been file
at Whittlesey's own request to fore
: stall all the justice be feared.
9 The sensitiveness manifested
0 Whittlesey is something surprisin
: when it is considered that the pape
Of which he is editor in chief CON
!, stantly overfow5 with the vilest G
!, abuse against men in private as we
B as public life, articles appearing yer
4 frequently in that paper that seem I
. indicate that one reporter is especial
ly detailed to play Paul Pry upon th
indiscrete acts of young men, initial
ing in this regard. the examples @
those anonymous sheets, the publica
ton or circulation Of which is for
hidden and punished by the polio
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