The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-03
ANOTHER VERSION.
[Springfield Post July 2nd. ]

The celebrated case of Bardell vs.
Pickwick was not more notorious than
that of Hainline vs. Claveland. The lat
ter case, however has broken out in
new place. And now comes to the front
again with the defendent as complainant
in another suit that is designed to act as
a sort of counter irritant to the former
When warrant was issued for the ar
rest of Cleveland, upon the complaint of
the Hainline woman during the expiring
hours of the Legislature, that gentlemen
asserted his innOcense of the charge of
bastardy. as stated in the complaint He
also declared the entire scheme was an
attempt at blackmail. Cleveland at that
time passed his conviction on the fact
that an attempt was made to prevail up
on him Ito come down" before suit was
begun. His attention had first been call
ed to the proposed prosecution by let
ter from ]. E. Dowling-of not very
savory notority-who intimated that the
Hainlaine woman claimed him, Cleveland
as the father of her unborn child. To
this he paid no attention. The day fol-
lowing there appeared in morning pa
per which has since undertaken to
present the fair Anna's case to the pub.
lic-an item intimating that a prosecu
ton would be brought against member
of the legislature unless it was fixed up.
Whe theT this reference to the case was
designed to hasten a compromise or not
it at least did not have that effect. The
thing ran along until the day the llegisla-
ture ndjourned sine die During the
evening of that day Cleveland was inform
ed that a warrant had been issu cd for
his areest II is said the constable who
was assigned the duty of serving the
warrant even appeared at the Leland
Hotel, where Claeeland remained during
the evening, but made no attempt to
serve it. On the following morning he
is again said to have disappeared upon
the scene, but he did nothing further
than make known his presence at tn e
hotel. Finally Clevelandand other friends
actually went out and hunted up the
! Justice of the peace who issued the war
rant, gave bond, and had his trial set
for the 10Th of July.
The previous notice of the attorney,
the newspaper publications, the holding
of the warrant without an attempt at
service, seemed to convince Cleveland
that this was case of backmail, and on
his way home to Rock Islaed he secured
the services of two detectives to look
after his inteests The result of their In
vestigations was such that he caused the
woman to be arrested Saturday upon
charges of blackmail and perjury. Or
Saturday last she was placed under bonds
to appear foi preliminary examination on
the 10Th inst. and deafult of bail was
. ,mmitted to Jail Just what there 10 In
the counter charges brought Cleveland
refuses to state, but in general way il
is learned that he expects to show tha
the woman is professional blackmailer
and that she swore falsely when she de
clared in her complaint that she is al
unmarried woman.
The morning papers have been indulg
ing in whole columns of sensational stuff
shout this case, but for some reason they
did not mention the two interesting
episodes of the scene iu the Justices
court last Saturday. In the first instance
Dowling, her attorney, played the highly
indignant to perfection, when it was as