The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-09-24

aforesaid child was born 20 the sald harriet
therein. The
said child was named and known as Stan
weed Blaine. The child lived two or three
years after its birth, when it sickened and
died, and during its whole life it was treated
and acknowledged as his child, as his own
son.
sFBy reason whereof the said defendants
say that the matter and things set forth and
recited in said complaint are true. and the
same being true the defendants did publish
thereof and concerning the said plaintiff, as
they justly and lawfully might do.
ID. TURTLE and
SULLIVAN & JONES,
''AttorD eys for Defendants"
And afterward "to-wit:" On the same day
the said defendant herein, Blaine the plain
tiff in said suit at law heretofore mentioned
filed his reply or replication therein in these
words:
James G. Blaine vs. indianapolis Sentinel Com
pany and John Q. Shoemaker. No. 1889.
For reply to the answer herein the plaintiff
denies each and every material allegation
therein. CLAYPOoL & kETcHUM.
HARRISON, MILLER Il ELAN,
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
And your orators further show that at the
same time aforesaid that their answer in said
suit at law ives fled, and with and as part
thereof they filed certain interrogatories sub
stantially the same as those hereafter recited,
which were required by these complainants
to be answed under oath by said Blaine
positively and without evasion within the
time limited by the court" that afterward,
to-wit your orators in said suit at Law, on
the 9th day of September, 1884, moved the
court in writing for rule against the said
defendant Blaine to answer the said inter-
rogatories within a certain and definite time
to be fixed by the court therein, which mo-
ton was afterward to-wit, on the 18th day
of September, 1884, after due advisement by
he lad and CO TOYS
charge that said interrogatories remain
wholly unanswered in said cause. and that
no rule to compel the said Blaine to answer
them may be or has been procured at law in
said cause as aforesaid; and your orators
further say that 1t will be evident to your
HonoIs upon inspection and examination of
the pleading in said suit at law herein before
recited, to.wit, said declaration, answer and
reply; that in order to sustais the defense of
justification pleaded by your orators therein
IT Will be necessary and material for your
orators to show and prove that the
defendant Blaine had and
duced the person whom ne afterward
married, by which intercourse such person
became $ before said marriage, aud gave
birth to child in about the space Of three
months alter said marriage, which child had
been been 8 . without, but was Born with
out lawful wedlock. Your orators further
say that they are informed and believe, and
Blaine was married to one Harriet Stan
wood on or about the 10Th day OF March,
1851, in the city of Pittsburg, in the State OF
Pennsylvania; that said marriage was CLAN
destinely arranged, secretly performed, and
hastily accomplished; that no lisence was is
sued by any authority for such marriage,
none being requ ired by the law of the State
where it was contracted at that time; that
no public official record was kept or made OF
said marriare, the law of said State requiring
no such record at the time such marriage
WIS contracted; that the minister, one
Bryan, who officiated at such marriage, died
several years ago; that if any private memo
| randa or record was made OF the marriage,
| of which your orators are not informed, the
same is now lost or DESTROYED as they are
| informed and believe. The particulars OF
which marriage aforesaid are specially and
| fully known to the said James G.
/ Blaine, and your orators further show that
| they are informed aud believ J and there
! fore charge the fact to be, that some time be-
/ fore the date of the marriage. as stated in
/ the bill, the said Blaine, the defendant was
engaged at teaching as as q professor therein
I at some institution of learning near the
| the town of Afillersburg in Bourbon Coun-
| ty Kentucky, and that said Harriet STAN
| wood, above spoken of in the bill, was en-
gagged at the same time as an instructress in
female seminary at said last named town;
| that these tive persons, the said defendant
| Blaine and the said Harriet, then and there
| if they had not before that time, became ac-
| quainted with each other; that both were
| single and unmarried at the time
l and said defendant Blaine paid his addresses
| as suitor to the said Harriet. That such
| acquaintance grew into intimacy between
| them, and that the said Blaine, the defend
| ant, having therein gained the confidence of
| the laid Harriet sedueed her from the path
of Tectitude, and induced her
| and being the same became
A
/ StanWoOd, brother or an uncle OF the said
| Harriet, or some other psrson or persons,
4 who are unknown to these, your orators,
/ waited upon the said Blaine q short
/ time Immediately before said marriage,
/ charged him with the seduction of said Har-
riet, and with being the cause of said condi-
| ton and threatened him with
severe personal ehastisement, or other vio-
! lence, unless he would marry the said Har-
/ riet. That the said Blaine making no de-
/ NAL Of that with which he was charged, and
/ being so threatened undertook and agreed TO
marry the said Harriet, and did marry her
\ as heretofore stated in the bill. That one or
more persons were present at the interview
between said Blaine and the relative, or
/ other person acting for said Harriet therein,
| but your orators say that such persons are
| unknown to your orators.
| And your orators further show, as they are
| informed and believe and therefore charge
A
marriage with the said Blaine as aforesaid
went East to Augusta, Me-, her former home,
| and where her relatives then resided, and
| that on or about the 18th day of June, 1851,
i about three months after tue time of said
marriage, she was delivered OF male child,
| which child was named and known as Stan
| wood Blaine, and which child thereafter
| lived with the said James G. aud Harriet
| Blaine, and was always recognized by the
| said James g. Blaine as his son, until its
death, which occurred two or three years
after the time OF its birth aforesaid. Your
orators further show that they have go ID
| and valid defense as stated in their
| plea Of justification TO the said suit at law Of
said Blaine for libel that the facts stated in
| said plea Of justification are true, and that
the same can be fully established by the an
swers of the said defendant Blaine to the in
teTogatories hereinafter proDounded that
j the said facts above recited in relation to the
of said Harriet to the time and cir
| cumstances OF said marriage, the compulsory
/ circumstances under which il was contracted
| and the time of the birth of the first child
therein, are facts peculiarly within the notice,
/ knowledge andinformation OF the said Blaine,
| the defendant herein that the aforesaid facts
concerning the condition OF
| said Harriet, the time and place of
1 fha ma rrio oo IF said dafandanf the foroafrr1