Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-05
An Arrest.

Charged With Lfbel-On His Way to l spend the Fourth-A Detention.
 Howard Lockwood, editor of the Paper
 Trade Journal and several other trade publi- cations, was arrested in this city Saturday night at the instance of Joseph Parker & Son, of this city, charged with libel in four counts, the total amount of damages claimed being $50, ,0O0. Lockwood was accompanied from New York, though unknown to him, by private detective employed by the Parkers,
 who, it is said, has been in their service for two years and whose business it was to in form them whenever Lockwood should start for New Haven Early Saturday afternoon word was received that Lockwood was on the way and when the train reached here, about five o'clock, the Parkers with Deputy Sher- if Keefe, who was armed with the necessary papers by W. B. Townsend. attorney for the Parkers, were in the depot waiting for him.
 He didn't come out of the train, and when the officer went in he refused to move until he had seen the papers and had them read Then he went to the New Haven House and set about getting the $25, 900 bail which was demanded. He was on his way to New Brit ain, where he expected to spend the Fourth of July, and had with him friend, who con tinued onward. The story of Joseph Parker, senior member of the firm, coupled with what other parties know of the case, show a singular state of affairs. The libel suit grew out of a quarrel between the parties, which was brought about strangely. The Parkers have paper mills in Westville, near this city, where for about forty years they have made paper. In the manufacture of plotting paper they claim to have peculiar and valuable secret, and have conse- quently kept strangers out of their mills. A few years ago, however, 8 Sheffield Scientific School student, named Vernon, whose father is a New York paper maker, wrote com mencement thesis on paper making, taking for his subject the Parkers' methods. He had gained access to Parkers' mills through a letter of introduction from college pro lessor. Lockwood got hold of the thesis and wrote the Parkers that he would like to see them before he published it. They say they considered this an attempt at black mail, and Joseph Parker, meeting Journal reporter in Alexander Agar's in New York, made remarks about Lockwood which the latter considered hbellous. He brought suit for 1000, and is said to have offered re- ward for information as to the time when dEFASE 6uOu4d 1edV0 G11S ClGy IOE NOW 4OIh The detectives informed Parker of this. In 1876 it is charged that Lockwood printed several articles in the Journal, each more se- were than it's predecessor, charging the Par kers in substance with practicing deception to their manufacture of plotting paper, being peculiar in make, character and value, and also publishing other derogatory state ments as to their method of doing business Then came the libel suit for $50, GOO. This is the first time Lockwood is. known to the Parkers to have been in Connecticut in two years, though he says he has been here quite frequently and was not surprised much to be arrested MT. Lockwood sought several of our citizens to obtain bonds, but without avail. He al Ieges abusive words from the plaintiff, and denied that he had ever intended to put MT. Parker, ST., to any unnecessary annoyance by arrest, and all he desired was to serve the papers necessary to the writ on him. MT. Lockwood also denied that he had kept out of Connecticut for fear of assault, and said that he was through here every few months He denied any malice in his publications and said he did what he did for the best interests of the paper trade.