The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-05-02
WANTS DAMAGES.
A Heavy Libel Suit Brought by
Henry Baker Against the
Haysville Register-A Sc
dalia Woman the Prin-
cipal Witness.

Yesterday afternoon, before Squire II
c.: LeveDs, in this city. the deposition o
Mrs.. SophrOnia ID. Guernsey was taken il
libel snit to be tried al the NAV term @
Buchanan county circuit court, In which
one Henry Baker sues the Maysville Reg
lister for the sum of Sci5,H'0 for libeling hi
character in an article which appeared il
that paper about the first oi January
1881.
This article charged Baker with being a
"blatherskite. vagrant, frequenter u
negro brOthels, that his word has been i'm
peached in court and that he was kicked
out of the Young 4 American hotel in Osborne
foI insulting lady"
| To ALL THESE CHARGES
| Baker enters a general denial and has
brought suit for damage His attornie>
are Messrs. s. :. Brown, III. Nj. Ramev an,!
Joseph Z. Grub oil -. Joe, the fir>, named
appearing here Yesterday Ia take part in
the deposition.
TIE WOMAN IN THE CASE
Some three months ago there came Ia
this city from Hannibal a woman bv the
name al Mrs. Saphronia ID. GUERNSEY. She
had no husband or children. hut tina, is
not against her. She is a petite blonde. oi
a vivacious disposition and seems fully
able To take care oi herself under anv
emergency. Her present residence is at
sol West Fourth street, and her business
Is that u! hair artist.
In her testimony, yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Guernsey said that she iirst became
acquainted with Henry Baker, n, Us
borne, i'm the latter part oi August, ISsu
She was then boarding at the Young
American hotel, where Baker lived. He
became quite familiar with her and called
her by the pet name OF
"IRINEY."
This familiarity, she claims. he abused
and ii WAS turned into insults, which she
patiently bore for weeks
One day Baker was IN her room and
used some very insulting language. Mrs.
Guernsey asked him il he MAS speaking To
or of her, and when he replied that he was.
she grabbed a poker and was ab,ut la
strike him, when he jumped up. caught
her hand and spit i'm her lace.
THIS RUMPU-
brought the clerk of the hotel To her room
AMI the offensive Baker was forcibly
elected, though the lady swears he was not
kicked out.
This was about all OF vital
interest which was developed
in the deposition AMI the
attorneys concluded to 60 no further in
their inquiries.
Col. Henry F. Glazier. editor Of the
Maysville Register, conducted his side of
the ase. he being also a LAWYER The colo
mel thinks he will beat the case. while the
attorney for the prosecution is equally as
certain that the editor will have ro pay a
handsome sum for the too free u-e OF his
pen.
WHO l. SHE
Ii NAV not prove dull reading tu give a
brief outline of the lie of the woman I'm
the case.
Mrs. Guernsey has been unfortunate i'm
her matrimonial ventures. Her present
name she assumed alter obtaining a di-
vOrce i'm Linn county from man by the
name of Denyes, who. it is said, obtained
a dissolution from her
On THE GROUND or ADULTERY
With a man by the name
IF Patterson, an employe OF the H. & ST. !
)o. L. L., while living at Brookfieid
From that place Mrs. GUERNSEY, nee !
enyes, went TO Osborne, where she was !
by the man Patterson, aud the I
of their intimacy led Baker 10
believe that he. too, might share her
charms.
She took her present name from a forIser
husband. so she testified Ia YESTERDAY.
Since leaving Osborne Mrs. GUERNSEY
las lived at Hannibal and this city. She +
las given. i'm neither place, anv cause Tor
uspicion, her conduct being that OF true
adv i
But Patterson, the party charged with
having committed adultery with the
woman, has gone tn the bad. He ha> de-
erted his family, leaving them in destitu-
ION, and has gone, no one know, where
This suit promises some rich develop
nents, especially as To the plaintiffs re.-
imony i'm regard to the principal witness
Or the defendant, and ii will be watched
nth considerable interest by newspaper
nen all over the state, a. their rights and
privileges will, M doubt. tee well defined
n the oh a rue Ia the iurv