Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-09-05
BLAINErS LIBEL SUJT
The sentinel" Company File Their Answer
and submit Searching Queries.

BY telegraph 10 the Dispatch.i
INDIANAPOLIS, September 4.-Tbc answer
q the Sentinel Company IN the Blaine libel
snit was filed in the United States Court
tins morning. The defence admits prInt-
ing aud publishing the article comnl,ined
Of In an issue Of August s. 1884. and denies
that IL was false in any Particular. IL sets
forth that James G.. Blame was married 10
Harriet Stanwood at Pittsburgh on or
about March ~, 1851; that prior To that
time. during the courtshlD, Blaine seduced
hiss Stanwood; that he at frat refused TO
make reparaiion for the wrong done. but
being afterwards strongly urged thereto and
violently threatened with chasiisement and
punishment for his said wrong.doing, and
rcrchance ropenting him Of the evil. mar
RED her a. stated; that in the June follow
ing child was born, known as Stanwood
Blaine, winch lived two or three years, and
II was always acknowledged by the plaintiff
snd his wife AS their son. BY reason
whereof the defendants say that the mat
toIs and things set forth in the article re-
cited are true; and the same being true.
they were published Of anil concerning
said plaintiff by defendant. as they Justly
and lawfully might do.
The defendants 6le with their answer
rUmbor Of interrogatories and require
that the same be answered by plaintiff I'M
der cath positively and without evasion
within ,uch time rs NAV be limited by the
court thereby. AmBng which are the fol-
lowing: State when You finally left Ken
lucky: II YOU at any time resided there?
When you went there? Where you were
next employed? In what business or call
irgY II the maiden name OF yoGr wife
was Harriet Stanwood2 State when
She finally left Kentucky and when you
next net her? Give the state and place
Il your marriage, and the names OF the
persons. besides yourself and wife, who
were present on the occasion. What ac-
quaintance had you with Jacob StanwOody
What relation was he. IL any, TO the person
YOU married, and what conversation or In
tCryicw did YOU have with him before said
marriage concerning the same, and where
did such interview, if any, occur.
and what was said and done therein?
Vas not the first child OF said
marriage born on the 18Th day OF
June, 1851? Where did said child die?
Whore was it buried; and ii in any ceme-
{ ~, give The name OF the cemetery Was
any tombstone or monument erected at
tie grave OF said child, giving its birth,
and hy whose direction was aid tombstone
erected? Did moi .aid tombstone bear the
following inscription relative 10 The birth
Of the child: Stanw0od Blaine: horn
June IS, 1871" ~ Has any portion OF such
il scdption on said tombstone been erased
since lis erection: II 50. what portion
thereof? What acquaintance haze Won
with the book called The Life Of James
G.. Blaine" written By Russell II. Con-
well. with an Introduction by Governor
Tolic, OF Maine, and published by l.. G.
Alien Il Co.. OF Augusta, Ne, in the year
ISSi? Were not the proofs OF such
work submitted TO you for revision?
], not tie statement upon the sixty
eighth pGge OF >ald book aS follows
Miss S;anwood N March. 1851. be-
cane his wife at Pittsburgh. Pa" the
correct statement OF tie time and place OF
Your murriaecy Did YOU not commune
cate 10 thc author OF said book for his use
ia such work the name OF the place OF
YOUR marriage as Aforesaid?