The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-05-25
A LIBEL SUIT
For Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars.
New Orleans Times.)

Messrs. Horner and Semmes, attorneys,
have filed suit for the Lottery COM
pany against Albert c. Janin, in the
fourth district court, for libel for the
sum of twenty-five thousand dollars.
The petitioner sets forth that Mr..
Janin is one Of the editors aud propre-
tors Of the Democrat, and that on the
18th of this month he wickedly, mali.
ciously, and intending to injure petition
er, and in order to cause the impntatlOns
therein to be believed, he published in
the New Orleans Democrat false and
malicious libel headed Gan Outrage
The petitioners aver that Chas. T.
Howard is its manager, and that the
words Howard and his brother thieves
were intended to be taken aud were ia
ken by the public to mean that Janin
denounced your petitioner and his EN-
plOyees under control of said manager
and otherwise, and the directors and
stockholders as thieves, dishonest per-
SONS, frlons who should be punished BY
the power of the law and that the bn-
sness of petitioner was dishonesty con-
Quoted by persons of dishonest character;
that the words "Howards swinding
concern were intended to be taken and
were taken to mean the Lottery Conpa-
ny, and to denounce it cheat. a fraud,
an imposition and deception y that the
words "Howard and his pals treated to a
short shift and a long rope" were to be
taken and We're taken to mean that Pc
titiOners manager, employees, directors
aud stockholders were thieves, and the
companies aud confederates of Thieves all
of which is wholly false, untrue. I'M
founded and wickedly written and pub
ljshed, and has greatly damaged petit
toners business, it's character, its good
name and standing, aid in the deprecia-
ton of it's stock.
Petitioner further shows that By the
words of said libel as follows ave shall
not be surprised te see some fine morning,
the Lottery Company's imposing palace
of vice torn down by a band of resolnte
citizens, and Howard and his pals treated
to short shift and long rope,' SAID
Janin intended to, and did mean by the
words 'palace of vice." that petitioners
place of business was conducted in dis
honest manner and to perpetrate a ma
licious desire to incte 4 mob to injure
and destroy the property of your petit
toner, and to kill petitioners employees,
directors and stockholders, and to hold
them and petitioner up to pubic repro
baton without any canse aud with
malice aud the evil intention to injure
petitioner, and petitioner has hereby sus-
tanned, geat damage.
The petition closes with the usual pray
or and five interrogatories embodying in
questions to Mr.. Janin the allegations
given above.
So M. Howard proposes to libel
the only decent paper in New Orleans !;
the outspoken, fearless friend Of the
people is to be silenced by this infa-
nous, legalized, gambling swindle.
We are rejoiced that this monster
should come from it's works and as
sail decent people, because such &C.
ton will rally the masses to its des-
tructiOn. Now, we Will see just how
much honesty there is in the profess
sions of so-called Democrats, who for
years howled about Radical outrages,
Radical villainies, and afterward,
when in office themselves, proceeded
to execute laws which every man of
common sense in the Commonwealth
knows to be unconstitutional.
Let every honorable man every
decens paper in Louisiana, rally to
tho support of the fearless Democrat ;
its cause is their cause; the very es-
sence Of our liberty, the right Of Ha
beas Corpus and trial by jury, hangs
in the scale.